ALB and neoplasm: Potential prognostic values have been shown by pretreatment serum inflammatory indicators like the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio (LMR), the C-reactive protein (CRP), and albumin (Alb) levels in some neoplasms (McMillan, 2013; Kim et al., 2015; Akinci Ozyurek et al., 2017; Lin et al., 2017; Rajwa et al., 2018).