In recent years, a comprehensive malnutrition index that integrates height, weight, and serum albumin levels, geriatric nutritional risk index (GNRI), has been reported to be associated with the prognosis of multiple GI malignancies, including colorectal cancer (CRC) [12], gastric cancer (GC) [13], and esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) [14]. Here, ALB is linked to esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.