In a national multicenter study led by JSG-NAFLD, Kawaguchi et al. reported that a favorable prognostic factor in NASH-HCC is serum albumin of 4.0 g/dL or more; further, the early detection of HCC can provide an indication of curative treatments, such as surgery and radiofrequency ablation therapy [60]. Here, ALB is linked to hepatocellular carcinoma.