The variables collected included age, gender, duration from admission to fever onset, time from fever onset to blood culture collection and antifungal treatment initiation, antifungal treatment within 72 h, serum albumin levels, history of cancer, diabetes, empiric echinocandin treatment, CVC insertion, duration of CVC insertion until fever onset, use of total parenteral nutrition, broad-spectrum antibiotic use, and sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA) score. This evidence concerns the gene ALB and cancer.