The diagnostic potential of NGAL, MMP-9, and indicator NGAL/MMP-9 in differentiating high-stage (FIGO III and IV) and low-stage (FIGO I and II) cancer and predicting the cell differentiation grade (G1 versus G3) on the basis of the analyses of AUC values was determined to be 0.91 and 0.79 for NGAL, 0.82 and 0.84 for MMP-9, and 0.91, 0.86 for indicator NGAL/MMP-9, respectively. The gene discussed is LCN2; the disease is cancer.