Kinetic Aspects of the Interplay of Cancer and the Immune System Full article
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Biophysical Reviews and Letters
ISSN: 1793-0480 , E-ISSN: 1793-7035 |
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| Output data | Year: 2019, Volume: 14, Number: 2, Pages: 101-114 Pages count : 4 DOI: 10.1142/s1793048019400010 | ||||
| Tags | Cancer; immune system; initiation; lifetime risk; tumor growth | ||||
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Abstract:
The understanding of the interplay between cancer and the immune system is still limited. Herein, I focus on two aspects of this interplay. First, I propose a kinetic model describing the likely role of the immune system in the lifetime risk of cancer at the level of the whole human population. For each tissue, the risk is predicted to be influenced by the heterogeneity of the population and to depend exponentially on time. The expression for the risk does not, however, depend explicitly on the total number of divisions of the corresponding stem cells. For this reason, the correlation with the latter number can only be indirect. Second, using another kinetic framework, I describe how the growth of a few tumors can depend on their interaction via the immune system. The analysis shows that depending on specific details, the tumors of different sizes tend either to reach the same size or remain to be of different sizes.
Cite:
Zhdanov V.P.
Kinetic Aspects of the Interplay of Cancer and the Immune System
Biophysical Reviews and Letters. 2019. V.14. N2. P.101-114. DOI: 10.1142/s1793048019400010 РИНЦ OpenAlex
Kinetic Aspects of the Interplay of Cancer and the Immune System
Biophysical Reviews and Letters. 2019. V.14. N2. P.101-114. DOI: 10.1142/s1793048019400010 РИНЦ OpenAlex
Dates:
| Submitted: | May 7, 2019 |
| Accepted: | Jul 26, 2019 |
| Published print: | Sep 16, 2019 |
Identifiers:
| Elibrary: | 63426000 |
| OpenAlex: | W2976896705 |