Does cancer growth depend on surface extension?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1338-1341

  Deisboeck, Thomas S ^a   Guiot, Caterina ^b   Delsanto, Pier Paolo ^b,c   Pugno, Nicola ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^c POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INVASION; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL DENSITY; CELL MOTILITY; HUMAN; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID TUMOR; THEORETICAL MODEL; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CELL MOVEMENT; FRACTALS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC;

EID: 33748964601     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2006.05.029     Document Type: Article

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