Previous studies have examined p62 expression in ovarian cancer tissues.2, 3 We speculate that p62 exhibits pro‐survival or pro‐death functions depending on its interacting partners and thus we evaluated the expression of p62 and the apoptotic initiator Caspase 8 in human ovarian cancer tissues from 160 patients by immunohistochemical staining. This evidence concerns the gene SQSTM1 and ovarian carcinoma.