ALB and metastatic malignant neoplasm in the lymph nodes: As shown in Table 2, the GNRI was significantly correlated with the following clinicopathological factors: age (p < 0.001), BMI (p < 0.001), albumin (p < 0.001), ASA-PS score (p = 0.002), depth of tumor invasion (p < 0.001), lymph node metastasis (p < 0.001), lymphatic invasion (p = 0.004), and pathological stage (p < 0.001).