APOA1 and hepatocellular carcinoma: Finally, we retrospectively collected clinicopathological data of 316 patients with HCC undergoing surgical treatment and 100 healthy controls from the Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University; this data was used to explore the importance of serum APOA-1 protein in evaluating the prognosis of patients with HCC to provide new indicators for the diagnosis and prognostic assessment of HCC.