ALB and cancer: A variety of nutritional and inflammatory indicators including neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) (15), platelet-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) (16), advanced lung cancer inflammation index (ALI) (17), systemic immune-inflammation index (SII) (18), geriatric nutrition risk index (GNRI) (19), prognostic nutritional index (20), and albumin to globulin ratio (AGR) (21) have been shown to be related to the prognosis of cancer.