Analysing the correlation between the levels of c-Myb, Smad7, p-Smad2, Snail, E-cadherin, and N-cadherin and the clinical features of the 116 patients with EOC, showed that the levels of these six proteins correlated significantly with ascites, lymph node metastasis, tumour differentiation, FIGO stage and cancer progress (Supplementary Table S9). Here, CDH2 is linked to neoplasm.