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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Chen Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4673614 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20151209
All tumors, both benign and metastatic, undergo an avascular growth stage with nutrients supplied by the surrounding tissue. This avascular growth process is much easier to carry out in more qualitative and quantitative experiments starting from tumor spheroids in vitro with reliable reproducibility. Essentially, this tumor progression would be described as a sequence of phenotypes. Using agent-based simulation in a two-dimensional spatial lattice, we constructed a composite growth model in whic ...[more]