Patient‐related variables (age, sex, performance status), tumor‐related variables (type of cancer, type of treatment, site of metastasis), nutritional variables (BMI, feeding tubes, ascites, peripheral edema), and several laboratory examinations (CRP, albumin, LDH, calcium, hemoglobin, WBC, lymphocytes, monocytes, platelets) were included in the analyses. This evidence concerns the gene ALB and cancer.