The present study showed no worse prognosis in patients with high TIMP-1 expression although no firm conclusion can be made for the group of patients with non-serous cancer since this group were too small for performing a separate survival analysis although it may be interesting to investigate in a larger material whether the higher level of TIMP-1 expression may effect survival in ovarian cancer patients with non-serous tumors. Here, TIMP1 is linked to ovarian carcinoma.