To determine the extent to which stress hormones influence ovarian cancer initiation, we conducted a long-term (> 3 months; > 40 population doublings) experiment in which normal immortalized fallopian tube secretory (iFTSEC283) and ovarian surface epithelial (iOSE11) cell lines and their isogenic pairs containing a p53 mutation (iFTSEC283p53R175H; iOSE11p53R175H), were continuously exposed to NE (100 nM, 1 μM, 10 μM). The gene discussed is TP53; the disease is ovarian cancer.