Background: Epithelial ovarian carcinoma is a malignancy arising from ovarian epithelial cell. The cellular transformation into malignant cell is known to be influenced by Bcl-2 protein family which acts as antiapoptotic agent. The -938C>A polymorphism on the Bcl-2 gene is known to be associated with various types of carcinoma. Hence, this study was proposed to identify the -938C>A polymorphism…