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. 2025 Aug 22;23:492. doi: 10.1186/s12916-025-04341-2

Table 1.

Description of demographic and clinical characteristics of patients

Training set and validation cohort 1 (n = 121) Validation cohort 2 (n = 130)
Number Epithelial ovarian cancer (n = 46) Borderline ovarian tumor (n = 16) Benign ovarian tumor (n = 26) Healthy control (n = 33) Epithelial ovarian cancer (n = 51) Borderline ovarian tumor (n = 22) Benign ovarian tumor (n = 28) Healthy control (n = 29)
Age (year) (mean (SD)) 53.17 (10.23) 38.69 (9.82) 44.19 (13.52) 53.79 (6.98) 54.24 (12.65) 38.00 (13.49) 47.00 (16.41) 53.00 (10.62)
Height (cm) (mean (SD)) 157.55 (5.20) 161.13 (5.58) 157.50 (5.23) 157.82 (5.03) 158.05 (5.02) 158.00 (6.06) 158.86 (5.84) 158.07 (4.94)
Weight (kg) (mean (SD)) 55.65 (7.17) 57.57 (7.80) 57.93 (10.28) 56.76 (7.31) 58.55 (8.99) 56.08 (7.60) 61.70 (10.41) 59.20 (8.96)
BMI (kg/m2) (mean (SD)) 22.43 (2.69) 22.16 (2.76) 23.30 (3.73) 22.79 (2.72) 23.39 (2.97) 22.49 (3.01) 24.46 (4.04) 23.69 (3.35)
CA125 (units/ml) (median [IQR]) 722.80 [197.58, 1785.90] 33.15 [20.30, 377.25] 15.80 [12.10, 24.53] NA 803.25 [132.02, 1554.95] 26.75 [14.90, 104.28] 15.85 [12.88, 17.88] NA
HE4 (pmol/l) (median [IQR]) 257.70 [137.10, 430.10] 45.05 [34.05, 49.65] 36.60 [27.30, 42.10] NA 155.30 [68.90, 401.80] 41.35 [31.12, 59.70] 34.60 [27.90, 40.00] NA
Family history (%)
 No 31 (67.39) 14 (87.50) 24 (92.31) 28 (84.85) 36 (70.59) 17 (77.27) 23 (82.14) 26 (89.66)
 Yes 15 (32.61) 2 (12.50) 2 (7.69) 5 (15.15) 15 (29.41) 5 (22.73) 5 (17.86) 3 (10.34)
Parity (%)
 No 6 (13.04) 6 (37.50) 5 (19.23) 2 (6.06) 7 (13.73) 9 (40.91) 4 (14.29) 1 (3.45)
 Yes 40 (86.96) 10 (62.50) 21 (80.77) 31 (93.94) 44 (86.27) 13 (59.09) 24 (85.71) 28 (96.55)
Menopause (%)
 No 21 (45.65) 12 (75.00) 18 (69.23) 12 (36.36) 20 (39.22) 19 (86.36) 14 (50.00) 16 (55.17)
 Yes 25 (54.35) 4 (25.00) 8 (30.77) 21 (63.64) 31 (60.78) 3 (13.64) 14 (50.00) 13 (44.83)
Tumor size (cm) (%)
 ≤ 10 20 (43.48) 9 (56.25) 21 (80.77) NA 27 (52.94) 12 (54.55) 18 (64.29) NA
 > 10 26 (56.52) 7 (43.75) 5 (19.23) NA 24 (47.06) 10 (45.45) 10 (35.71) NA
FIGO Stage for ovarian cancer (%)
 I-II 11 (23.91) NA NA NA 16 (31.37) NA NA NA
 III-IV 35 (76.09) NA NA NA 35 (68.63) NA NA NA
Histological type (%)
 Serous 32 (69.57) 8 (50.00) 10 (38.46) NA 34 (66.67) 8 (36.36) 13 (46.43) NA
 Mucinous 3 (6.52) 8 (50.00) 12 (46.15) NA 5 (9.80) 10 (45.45) 14 (50.00) NA
 Endometriod 7 (15.22) 0 (0.00) 0 (0.00) NA 2 (3.92) 3 (13.64) 0 (0.00) NA
 Clear cell 3 (6.52) 0 (0.00) 0 (0.00) NA 7 (13.73) 0 (0.00) 0 (0.00) NA
 Other 1 (2.17) 0 (0.00) 4 (15.38) NA 3 (5.88) 1 (4.55) 1 (3.57) NA

Age, age at diagnosis; Height, height at diagnosis; Weight, weight at diagnosis; BMI, BMI at diagnosis; CA125, CA125 blood test performed at diagnosis; HE4, HE4 test of blood collected at diagnosis; Family history, family history of malignant tumors; Parity, parity before diagnosis; Menopause, Menopause before diagnosis or not; Tumor size, tumor size described by ultrasound; FIGO Stage for ovarian cancer, FIGO Stage I-II, Tumor confined to ovaries or fallopian tube(s). Or tumor involves one or both ovaries or fallopian tubes with pelvic extension (below pelvic brim) or primary peritoneal cancer. FIGO Stage III-IV, tumor involves one or both ovaries, or fallopian tubes, or primary peritoneal cancer, with cytologically or histologically confirmed spread to the peritoneum outside the pelvis and/or metastasis to the retroperitoneal lymph nodes. Or distant metastasis excluding peritoneal metastases. Histological type, histological type based on the patient’s pathology report