PDGFRA and ovarian carcinoma: To further demonstrate the role of PDGFRα in ovarian cancer development and progression, and to confirm its clinical relevance, we collected four independent cohorts of ovarian cancer from Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) and The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) data sets for which genome wide gene expression and survival data were publicly available, and examined how the PDGFRα expression correlates with patient survival.