Scaling Laws in Cancer: The Dynamic Behaviour of the Power Exponent p

dc.creatorGuiot, Caterina
dc.creatorDelsanto, Pier Paolo
dc.creatorMansury, Yuri
dc.creatorDeisboeck, Thomas S.
dc.date2004-05-29
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T05:58:26Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T05:58:26Z
dc.descriptionWe have previously reported that a 'universal' growth law with fixed scaling exponent p, as proposed by West and collaborators for all living organisms, appears to be able to describe also the growth of tumors in vivo. Here, we investigate in more detail the dynamic behaviour of p using data from the literature. We show that p initially decreases before it again increases up to or even beyond 3/4. These results support the notion that p can vary over time and yet its dynamics are independent from the cancer type.
dc.description8 pages, 1 figure
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0405026
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0405026
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/88356
dc.subjectTissues and Organs
dc.subjectBiological Physics
dc.titleScaling Laws in Cancer: The Dynamic Behaviour of the Power Exponent p
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