ALB and gastric cancer: Although these serum biochemical parameters are of less diagnostic value in hepatic metastatic cancer,10, 11 some of them have been demonstrated to be associated with outcomes of gastric cancer and were incorporated into prognostic prediction model, such as alkaline phosphatase,12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 bilirubin,14, 16, 19 and albumin.14, 15, 16, 17