The Cox regression analysis revealed that the pathological TNM stage (P ═ 0.007), the long diameters of the tumor (hazard ratio [HR] ═ 1.174, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.006–1.371, P ═ 0.042), the pre-Alb-dNLR level (HR ═ 0.462, 95%CI 0.283–0.752, P ═ 0.002), and ΔAlb-dNLR level (HR ═ 0.404, 95%CI 0.255–0.639, P < 0.001) were identified as significant independent predictors of OS following nCRT, as presented in Table 2. Here, ALB is linked to neoplasm.