2004/05/29 by Caterina Guiot, Pier Paolo Delsanto, Guiot, Caterina +5
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Environmental Science · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph) #FOS: Biological sciences #FOS: Physical sciences #Gene Regulatory Network Analysis #Mathematical Biology Tumor Growth #Physiological and biochemical adaptations #Tissues and Organs (q-bio.TO) #physics.bio-ph #q-bio.TO
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.q-bio/0405026
8 pages, 1 figure
arxiv created 2004/05/29 · openalex publication_date 2004/05/29 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We 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.