ALB and neoplasm: After adjusting for confounders such as sex, age, pTNM staging, tumor site, histological type, EMVI, PNI, CRM, blood haemoglobin and serum albumin level, number of lymph nodes examined, and surgical approach, operation duration was found to be an independent risk factor for OS with a HR of 1.004 (1.003, 1.005), and a HR of 1.005 (1.003, 1.006) for DFS.