ALB and hepatocellular carcinoma: The clinical characteristics of 374 hepatocellular carcinomas (HCC) patients in the TCGA (https://portal.gdc.cancer.gov/) were downloaded including T stage, N stage, M stage, pathologic stage, Tumor status, Gender, Race, Age, Weight, BMI, Histologic grade, Residual tumor, Adjacent hepatic tissue inflammation, AFP (ng/ml), Albumin (g/dl), and Vascular invasion (Table 1).