ALB and cancer: Accordingly, prognostic factors based on the several ratios of the circulating blood cells, such as neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) [10], lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio (LMR) [11], Lymph node ratio (LNR) [12, 13], CRP-to-albumin ratio (CAR) [14, 15], modified Glasgow Prognostic Score (mGPS) [16, 17], have been developed and reported to be associated with poor survival in cancer patients.