Therefore, as in other tumor primaries, various investigators focused on the inflammation and nutrition biomarkers in previous LA-NPC studies and identified some factors with notable prognostic utility; these include the body mass index (BMI), C-reactive protein (CRP) and albumin levels, neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR), platelet to lymphocyte ratio (PLR), Glasgow prognostic score (GPS), and prognostic nutritional index (PNI) [6–11]. The gene discussed is ALB; the disease is nasopharyngeal carcinoma.