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Modeling tumor growth
1Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Sciences, University of Illinois, Chicago 60680.
Mathematical Biosciences
|February 1, 1991
Abstract:
The meaning and limitations of certain mathematical models of tumor growth are discussed, and some new derivations of the existing models are given. A theoretical justification for Gompertz's law of growth for tumors is presented. An age-dependent Von Bertalanffy's equation and diffusion models are introduced, and existence and uniqueness problems are addressed.