ALB and cancer: The common adverse reactions during chemotherapy include gastrointestinal reactions, nutritional deficiencies and impaired immune function29 Improving patients’ immune status is of great significance for the nutritional status of cancer patients.30 This study also proved that the improvement of the post-treatment levels of hemoglobin, albumin, serum iron and ferritin in the study group was more significant than that in the control group; and the difference was statistically significant.