Modeling tumor dormancy: What makes a tumor switch from dormant to malignant?

Friday, October 17, 2014 - 12:31 in Health & Medicine

A new computational model may help illuminate the conditions surrounding tumor dormancy and the switch to a malignant state. The so-called cellular automaton model simulated various scenarios of tumor growth leading to tumor suppression, dormancy or proliferation.

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