ALB and hepatocellular carcinoma: The score has been validated in the prognostic assessment of cancers such as small-cell lung cancer (43) and HCC (49–51), and it has even been pointed out that in the model of platelet-albumin (PAL), the easy (EZ)-ALBI grade and the ALBI grade, PALBI, and end-stage liver disease (MELD), which are the several hepatic reserve models, PALBI was the best model (52).