ALB and gastric neoplasm: There was no significant difference in their characteristics including gender (p = 0.538), age (p = 0.206), the count of albumin (p = 0.674), lymphocyte (p = 0.206) and neutrophil (p = 0.540), the N stage of the gastric tumor (p = 0.499), chemotherapy (p = 0.451), PNI (p = 0.907) and NLR (p = 0.936), except for more the number of T4b (62.8% > 46.3%, p = 0.017) and liver metastases (70.4% >  37.5%, p = 0.001) and less gastrectomy (32.8% < 100.0%, p = 0.001) in nonhepatectomy group (Table 3).