Focus on the Physics of Cancer
Abstract
Despite the spectacular achievements of molecular biology in the second half of the twentieth century and the crucial advances it permitted in cancer research, the fight against cancer has brought some disillusions. It is nowadays more and more apparent that getting a global picture of the very diverse and interlinked aspects of cancer development necessitates, in synergy with these achievements, other perspectives and investigating tools. In this undertaking, multidisciplinary approaches that include quantitative sciences in general and physics in particular play a crucial role. This `focus on' collection contains 19 articles representative of the diversity and state-of-the-art of the contributions that physics can bring to the field of cancer research.
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@article{arxiv.1505.04271,
title = {Focus on the Physics of Cancer},
author = {Thomas Risler},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.04271},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Invited editorial review for the `Focus on the Physics of Cancer' published by the New journal of Physics in 2011--2015