ALB and cancer: Lower BMI and albumin and prealbumin levels have been associated with a worse short-term prognosis, mainly in post-operative patients or in non-cancer patients, which is a situation wherein the impact of multiple organ failures might be less pronounced [10,11,12,24]; however, the serum albumin level is neither an accurate nor a specific marker of nutritional status, since it is also influenced by inflammation, intravascular fluid content, drugs, and many other conditions impacting its synthesis or loss [25,26].