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A two strain spatiotemporal mathematical model of cancer with free boundary condition

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In a 2004 paper, John Nagy raised the possibility of the existence of a hypertumor \emph{i.e.}, a focus of aggressively reproducing parenchyma cells that invade part or all of a tumor. His model used a system of nonlinear ordinary differential equations to find a suitable set of conditions for which…

In a 2004 paper, John Nagy raised the possibility of the existence of a hypertumor \emph{i.e.}, a focus of aggressively reproducing parenchyma cells that invade part or all of a tumor. His model used a system of nonlinear ordinary differential equations to find a suitable set of conditions for which these hypertumors exist. Here that model is expanded by transforming it into a system of nonlinear partial differential equations with diffusion, advection, and a free boundary condition to represent a radially symmetric tumor growth. Two strains of parenchymal cells are incorporated; one forming almost the entirety of the tumor while the much more aggressive strain

appears in a smaller region inside of the tumor. Simulations show that if the aggressive strain focuses its efforts on proliferating and does not contribute to angiogenesis signaling when in a hypoxic state, a hypertumor will form. More importantly, this resultant aggressive tumor is paradoxically prone to extinction and hypothesize is the cause of necrosis in many vascularized tumors.

ContributorsAlvarez, Roberto L (Author) / Milner, Fabio A (Thesis advisor) / Nagy, John D. (Committee member) / Kuang, Yang (Committee member) / Thieme, Horst (Committee member) / Mahalov, Alex (Committee member) / Smith, Hal (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)

Created2014

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A two strain spatiotemporal mathematical model of cancer with free boundary condition

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