The median CRP levels in the cancer, benign tumour, non‐tumour disease, and healthy groups were 12.64 (range: 0.5‐348) mg/L, 4.61 (range: 1.1‐178.8) mg/L, 3.47 (range: 0‐170.4) mg/L and 2.3 (range: 0.27‐18.03) mg/L, respectively. This evidence concerns the gene CRP and cancer.