ALB and neoplasm: Recent research has preliminarily demonstrated the predictive effects of several clinical pathological characteristics, including tumour size, differentiation, histology type, and tumour biomarkers [2, 6], as well as inflammation-associated factors, such as neutrophil, lymphocyte, C-reactive protein, and albumin levels, as well as neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR) [7, 8].