ALB and gastric cancer: Naples prognostic score (NPS), calculated from serum albumin, cholesterol, NLR and LMR, was initially carried out in the research of colorectal cancer by Galizia et al [23], recently has been widely researched in patients with malignancies, such as colorectal cancer, pancreatic cancer, endometrial cancer, lung cancer, gastric cancer, and esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.