Chance mechanisms affecting the burden of metastases

BMC Cancer

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Kendal, Wayne S ^a,b  

^a OTTAWA REGIONAL CANCER CENTRE   (Canada)

^b OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPIRICISM; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALIZATION; METASTASIS; MICROENVIRONMENT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTIPLE CANCER; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; TUMOR VOLUME; VALIDATION PROCESS; ANIMAL; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTAL MELANOMA; MOUSE; NEOPLASM; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PATHOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MELANOMA, EXPERIMENTAL; MICE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; SOFTWARE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 27744520120     PISSN: 14712407     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-5-138     Document Type: Article

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