ALB and cancer: As summarized in Table 1, age, gender, body mass index (BMI), race, family history of cancer, risk factor of cancer, surgical procedure, pathological histology grade, American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) stage, vascular invasion, perineural invasion, fibrosis, new tumor events, alpha-fetoprotein (AFP), total bilirubin, albumin and creatinine levels were equally distributed between the two groups (Table 1).