Thermodynamics and cancer stationary states

Umberto Lucia

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2013, vol. 392, issue 17, 3648-3653

Abstract: Cancer can be described as an open complex dynamic and self-organizing system. The stationary states of the open systems are analysed in engineering thermodynamics by entropy generation. The recent results on entropy generation are suggested as the basis of a new approach to cancer analysis in order to study the cancer evolution and new possible anticancer therapies.

Keywords: Anticancer; Cancer; Entropy generation; Irreversibility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2013.04.033

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