Inferring the effect of therapy on tumors showing stochastic Gompertzian growth

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 276, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 67-77

  Albano, Giuseppina ^a   Giorno, Virginia ^a   Román Román, Patricia ^b   Torres Ruiz, Francisco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Gompertz diffusion process; Therapy; Tumor growth

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN;

CHEMOTHERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; ESTIMATION METHOD; GROWTH RATE; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; STOCHASTICITY; TUMOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CHRONOTHERAPY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; GOMPERTZIAN MODEL; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL; STOCHASTIC MODEL; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; TUMOR XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CISPLATIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

MURINAE;

EID: 79951692645     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.01.040     Document Type: Article

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