A superstatistical model of metastasis and cancer survival
Medical Physics
2007-11-30 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Biological Physics
Abstract
We introduce a superstatistical model for the progression statistics of malignant cancer cells. The metastatic cascade is modeled as a complex nonequilibrium system with several macroscopic pathways and inverse-chi-square distributed parameters of the underlying Poisson processes. The predictions of the model are in excellent agreement with observed survival time probability distributions of breast cancer patients.
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@article{arxiv.0711.4687,
title = {A superstatistical model of metastasis and cancer survival},
author = {L. Leon Chen and Christian Beck},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0711.4687},
year = {2007}
}
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15 pages, 7 figures