Spatio-temporal aspects of the interplay of cancer and the immune system
Journal article, 2019

The conventional mean-field kinetic models describing the interplay of cancer and the immune system are temporal and predict exponential growth or elimination of the population of tumour cells provided their number is small and their effect on the immune system is negligible. More complex kinetics are associated with non-linear features of the response of the immune system. The generic model presented in this communication takes into account that the rates of the birth and death of tumour cells inside a tumour spheroid can significantly depend on the radial coordinate due to diffusion limitations in the supply of nutrients and/or transport of the species (cells and proteins) belonging to the immune system. In this case, non-trivial kinetic regimes are shown to be possible even without appreciable perturbation of the immune system.

Kinetic model

Growth

Diffusion

Tumour

Cancer

Author

Vladimir Zhdanov

Chalmers, Physics, Biological Physics

Russian Academy of Sciences

Journal of Biological Physics

0092-0606 (ISSN) 1573-0689 (eISSN)

Vol. 45 4 395-400

Subject Categories

Biomedical Laboratory Science/Technology

Other Medical Biotechnology

Embedded Systems

DOI

10.1007/s10867-019-09535-3

PubMed

31773382

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9/17/2020