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Spatiotemporal Fluctuation Induced Transition in a Tumor Model with Immune Surveillance

Biological Physics 2009-11-11 v1 Medical Physics

Abstract

We report on a simple model of spatial extend anti-tumor system with a fluctuation in growth rate, which can undergo a nonequilibrium phase transition. Three states as excited, sub-excited and non-excited states of a tumor are defined to describe its growth. The multiplicative noise is found to be double-face: The positive effect on a non-excited tumor and the negative effect on an excited tumor.

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@article{arxiv.physics/0603089,
  title  = {Spatiotemporal Fluctuation Induced Transition in a Tumor Model with Immune Surveillance},
  author = {Wei-Rong Zhong and Yuan-Zhi Shao and Zhen-Hui He},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0603089},
  year   = {2009}
}

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8pages,5figures