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Spatiotemporal fluctuation-induced transition in a tumor model with immune surveillance
Wei-Rong Zhong1, Yuan-Zhi Shao, Zhen-Hui He
1State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, Department of Physics, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
We report on a simple model of spatially extended antitumor system with a fluctuation in growth rate, which can undergo a nonequilibrium phase transition. Three states as excited, subexcited and nonexcited states of a tumor are defined to describe its growth. The multiplicative noise is found to have opposite effects: The positive effect on a nonexcited tumor and the negative effect on an excited tumor.
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