The clinicopathological data including the age, gender, BMI, HBV, liver cirrhosis, Child Pugh, CEA, CA-199, PIVKA-II, total bilirubin, ALT, AST, γ-GT, albumin, prothrombin time, total cholesterol, HDL and LDL of the two groups (responders, R, n = 9 and non-responders, NR, n = 11) of patients were not significantly different. Here, ALB is linked to cirrhosis of liver.