ALB and hepatocellular carcinoma: In our research, age was not identified as a risk factor, nor were other factors such as gender, tumor number, preoperative low albumin, and ECOG physical status that were previously suggested to be correlated with overall survival in patients with HCC-NCL (Dasari et al. 2020; Penzkofer et al. 2022; Demirtas et al. 2021).