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The role of Allee effect in modelling post resection recurrence of glioblastoma.


ABSTRACT: Resection of the bulk of a tumour often cannot eliminate all cancer cells, due to their infiltration into the surrounding healthy tissue. This may lead to recurrence of the tumour at a later time. We use a reaction-diffusion equation based model of tumour growth to investigate how the invasion front is delayed by resection, and how this depends on the density and behaviour of the remaining cancer cells. We show that the delay time is highly sensitive to qualitative details of the proliferation dynamics of the cancer cell population. The typically assumed logistic type proliferation leads to unrealistic results, predicting immediate recurrence. We find that in glioblastoma cell cultures the cell proliferation rate is an increasing function of the density at small cell densities. Our analysis suggests that cooperative behaviour of cancer cells, analogous to the Allee effect in ecology, can play a critical role in determining the time until tumour recurrence.

SUBMITTER: Neufeld Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5711030 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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The role of Allee effect in modelling post resection recurrence of glioblastoma.

Neufeld Zoltan Z   von Witt William W   Lakatos Dora D   Wang Jiaming J   Hegedus Balazs B   Czirok Andras A  

PLoS computational biology 20171117 11


Resection of the bulk of a tumour often cannot eliminate all cancer cells, due to their infiltration into the surrounding healthy tissue. This may lead to recurrence of the tumour at a later time. We use a reaction-diffusion equation based model of tumour growth to investigate how the invasion front is delayed by resection, and how this depends on the density and behaviour of the remaining cancer cells. We show that the delay time is highly sensitive to qualitative details of the proliferation d  ...[more]

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