It was reported that complement C3, ceruloplasmin, histidine-rich glycoprotein, CD14, hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) (Liu, Y. et al., 2010), hemopexin, fetuin-A (Comunale et al., 2009) and haptoglobin (Zhang et al., 2016) could be potential glycobiomarkers for distinguishing HCC. Here, HGF is linked to hepatocellular carcinoma.