Modeling insight into spontaneous regression of tumors

Mathematical Biosciences

Volumn 155, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 45-60

  Yakovlev, Andrej ^a   Boucher, Kenneth ^a   Disario, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic results; Gompertz birth death process; Spontaneous regression; Stochastic modelling; Tumor growth

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER REGRESSION; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LUNG CANCER; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TUMOR VOLUME;

HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASM REGRESSION, SPONTANEOUS;

EID: 0032917137     PISSN: 00255564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-5564(98)10052-4     Document Type: Article

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