The role of Allee effect in modelling post resection recurrence of glioblastoma.

Resection of the bulk of a tumour often cannot eliminate all cancer cells, due to their infiltration into the surrounding healthy tissue. This may lead to recurrence of the tumour at a later time. We use a reaction-diffusion equation based model of tumour growth to investigate how the invasion front...

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Main Authors: Zoltan Neufeld, William von Witt, Dora Lakatos, Jiaming Wang, Balazs Hegedus, Andras Czirok
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-11-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005818