Similarly, in esophageal cancer, Matsunaga et al. reported that patients with preoperative sarcopenia tended to have relatively higher NLR, CRP-to-albumin ratio, and modified Glasgow prognostic score than those without preoperative sarcopenia, although the effect of sarcopenia on NLR was not statistically significant (p = 0.052). The gene discussed is CRP; the disease is sarcopenia.