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Cancer
Study findings from R.A. Gatenby et al broaden understanding of cancer
November 13th, 2008
"Mathematical catastrophe theory is used to describe cancer growth during any time-dependent program a(t) of therapeutic activity. The program may be actively imposed, e. g. as chemotherapy, or occur passively as an immune response," scientists in the United States report. "With constant therapy a(t), the theory predicts that cancer mass p(t) grows in time t as a cosine-modulated power law, with power = 1.618..., the Fibonacci constant. The cosine modulation predicts the familiar relapses and remissions of cancer growth. These fairly well agree with clinical data on breast cancer recurrences following mastectomy. Two such studies of 3183 Italian women consistently show...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-11-13)
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