CRP and cancer: Circulating inflammatory parameter(including C-reactive protein (CRP), albumin levels, the lymphocyte-monocyte ratio (LMR), the neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), the platelet-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) or fibrinogen levels) was associated with a poor prognosis in many types of malignant tumor patients including DLBCL [1, 20–27].