ALB and neoplasm: However, despite these hindrances, because lower AAPR values symbolize either decreased ALB or increased ALP levels or both simultaneously, the present results and others from a rapidly growing number of tumor sites invariably imply that the easy to achieve, simple to calculate, and inexpensive AAPR might be utilized as a signifying biomarker of increased inflammation, decreased nutrition and antitumoral immunity, and increased resistance to treatment.