ALB and nasopharyngeal carcinoma: Although it is difficult to dependably remark on the genuine value of these exceptional discoveries in absence of similarly designed ALI research, they seem to concur well with the published results of ALI studies for other tumor sites [12–17, 25] and the NPC studies examining the prognostic utility of BMI, albumin, and NLR [6–8], namely, the components of ALI.