ALB and leukemia: For example, women aged 50-59 years with low albumin levels were diagnosed as having cancers of the following types or site (in rank order): lung, bowel, breast, renal tract, stomach or oesophagus, lymphoma, pancreas, ovarian, other, hepatobiliary, myeloma, uterine, head and neck, melanoma of skin, bone and connective tissue, central nervous system, and leukaemia (fig 5).