CRP and gastric cancer: In univariate analyses of DFS (Table 3, left panel), the factors associated with the gastric cancer DFS were the sex, differentiation, T stage, N stage, TNM stage, family history, smoke history, preoperative CRP/Alb ratio, postoperative CRP/Alb ratio, preoperative Alb, preoperative CRP, postoperative Alb and postoperative CRP.