AFP and chronic hepatitis: Table 1 shows no intergroup differences in age, sex, TBIL, ALT, AST, Alb, Pre‐Alb, prothrombin time, platelet count, AFP, HBV‐DNA level, etiology of the liver disease, major hepatectomy, anatomic hepatectomy, chronic hepatitis and cirrhosis, tumor number and size, tumor capsule, microvascular invasion (MVI), and the Edmondson–Steiner grade (p > 0.05).