Modeling avascular tumor growth via linear elasticity

Abstract eng:
Cancer represents one the most challenging problems in medicine and biology nowadays. Recently, it has been shown that stresses affect tumor patho-physiology. In fact, we believe that a better understanding of the state of stress present in growing tumors is needed to develop new therapies and further improvement in treatments. This work represents an extension of the study made by Ngwa and Agyngi 2012 [3] in three major aspects: the introduction of anisotropic growth, the construction of a growth law depending of the stress levels and the effect of the parameters representing these contributions in stress and growth.

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