Ovarian cancer

Ovarian cancer is a cancer that forms in or on an ovary. Over 95% of cases consist of ovarian carcinomas which develop in the epithelial tissue, a thin lining that covers the outside of an ovary. In the remaining cases, ovarian cancer develops from stromal or germ cells (Arora T et al. (2024)). More than 70% of ovarian cancer cases are diagnosed at a late stage, leading to a poor prognosis. Currently, diagnosis is based on histopathological examination. The best biomarker is serum glycoprotein CA125 which is overexpressed in more than 80% of ovarian cancer patients (Zhang R et al. (2022)). It may occur at any age but is more common in patients older than 50 years. Ovarian cancer is the fifth most common cause of cancer death in women (Penny SM. (2020)).

Differential abundance and machine learning analysis

This section presents the disease-specific results of the differential abundance and machine learning analyses. The analyses are reported for three comparisons: 1) disease vs. all other diseases, 2) disease vs. diseases from the same class, and 3) disease vs. healthy samples.

Disease vs All other
Disease vs Class
Disease vs Healthy