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The Tumor Microenvironment

The Tumor Microenvironment

Every normal cell or tissue is embedded in a complex local environment called stroma, consisting of different cell types, a basal membrane, and blood vessels. As normal cells mutate and develop into cancer cells, their local environment also changes to allow cancer progression. The tumor microenvironment (TME) consists of a complex cellular matrix of stromal cells and the developing tumor. The cross-talk between cancer cells and surrounding stromal cells is critical to disrupt normal tissue...

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Heterogeneity Mapping of Protein Expression in Tumors using Quantitative Immunofluorescence

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Tumor Biochemical Heterogeneity and Cancer Radiochemotherapy: Network Breakdown Zone-Model.

Argyris Dimou¹, Panos Argyrakis¹, Raoul Kopelman²

¹Department of Physics and Complexity Center, University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece.

Entropy (Basel, Switzerland)

|August 26, 2022

Summary

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Mathematical models show that reduced cell removal in tumor networks explains incomplete breakdown during radiochemotherapy. Tumor microenvironment heterogeneity impacts treatment efficacy, guiding precision oncology strategies.

Keywords:

hypoxia heterogeneity inverse percolation shell model monte-carlo simulations network breakdown oncology radiation modelling tumor radiotherapy

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Area of Science:

Network Science
Cancer Biology
Mathematical Oncology

Background:

Tumor network breakdown under radiochemotherapy can be incomplete due to physical or chemical tumor heterogeneity.
Erdos-Renyi random networks serve as mathematical models to study these breakdowns.
Understanding this incompleteness is crucial for improving cancer treatment efficacy.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate two-zone random networks as models for incomplete tumor breakdown.
To quantitatively describe how reduced node removal probability in a network's inner zone affects overall breakdown.
To explore the impact of tumor microenvironment (TME) chemical heterogeneity on radiochemotherapy efficacy.

Main Methods:

Utilizing two-zone Erdős-Rényi random networks as mathematical models.
Analyzing network breakdown by examining the largest remaining clusters and their size distributions.
Quantifying the relationship between reduced inner zone removal probability and network fragmentation.

Main Results:

Reduced node removal probability in the inner zone significantly hampers overall network breakdown.
The degree of network breakdown is quantitatively dependent on the reduction in the inner zone's removal probability.
This mathematical framework elucidates how TME heterogeneity can lead to incomplete tumor response.

Conclusions:

Mathematical modeling of heterogeneous networks provides insights into incomplete tumor breakdown during radiochemotherapy.
TME chemical heterogeneity plays a critical role in modulating treatment efficacy.
Imaging TME chemical heterogeneity could inform personalized precision oncology approaches.