Amy Wu, David Liao, Vlamimir Kirilin, Ke-Chih Lin, Gonzalo Torga, Junle Qu, Liyu Liu, James C Sturm, Kenneth Pienta, Robert Austin
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Abstract
Background: The physics of cancer dormancy, the time between initial cancer treatment and re-emergence after a protracted period, is a puzzle. Cancer cells interact with host cells via complex, non-linear population dynamics, which can lead to very non-intuitive but perhaps deterministic and understandable progression dynamics of cancer and dormancy.
Results: We explore here the dynamics of host-cancer cell populations in the presence of (1) payoffs gradients and (2) perturbations due to cell migration.
Conclusions: We determine to what extent the time-dependence of the populations can be quantitively understood in spite of the underlying complexity of the individual agents and model the phenomena of dormancy.
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