Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Henscheid N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6025881 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Henscheid Nick N Clarkson Eric E Myers Kyle J KJ Barrett Harrison H HH
PloS one 20180629 6
Many different physiological processes affect the growth of malignant lesions and their response to therapy. Each of these processes is spatially and genetically heterogeneous; dynamically evolving in time; controlled by many other physiological processes, and intrinsically random and unpredictable. The objective of this paper is to show that all of these properties of cancer physiology can be treated in a unified, mathematically rigorous way via the theory of random processes. We treat each phy ...[more]