Expression profiling of mucinous tumors of the ovary identifies genes of clinicopathologic importance.

The article comments on a study which screened the entire transcriptome of mucinous ovarian tumors and compared them to other ovarian cancers in order to discover genes and metabolic pathways responsible for the clinical characteristics of the disease conducted by F. W. Wamunyokoli et al. It cites that ovarian cancer is considered as one of the neoplasms with the worst prognosis due to delayed diagnosis. It notes that tumors in ovaries can show up as borderline disease with metastatic potential.