Finally, we measured the levels of a number of protein mediators in the ascites of up to 40 serous ovarian cancer patients (Additional file 4: Table S3) and found readily detectable levels for all mediators shown in Fig. 3d, whereas IL4, IL12, IL13, and GM-CSF were not detectable, consistent with the RNA-Seq and RT-qPCR data (Fig. 2a and 3a). This evidence concerns the gene IL13 and ovarian serous adenocarcinoma.