The model muddle: In search of tumor growth laws

Cancer Research

Volumn 73, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2407-2411

  Gerlee, Philip ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CANCER CELL; CANCER RESEARCH; CELL DIVISION; DYNAMICS; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR MODEL; TUMOR VOLUME; UPREGULATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 84876958066     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-12-4355     Document Type: Review

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