Stochastic models of tumor growth and the probability of elimination by cytotoxic cells

DOI10.1007/BF00275990MaRDI QIDQ799598zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Stephen J. Merrill

Publication date 1984

Published in Journal of Mathematical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00275990

zbMATH Keywords

diffusion approximationsextinction probabilitycytotoxic cellsdensity dependent Markov jump processelimination probabilitygrowth of tumor cell populations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Medical applications (general) (92C50) Applications of Brownian motions and diffusion theory (population genetics, absorption problems, etc.) (60J70) Applications of branching processes (60J85) Continuous-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces (60J27)

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