Entropy generation and cell growth with comments for a thermodynamic anticancer approach

Umberto Lucia

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2014, vol. 406, issue C, 107-118

Abstract: The chemical–physical analysis of the DNA have pointed out the connections between forces, thermodynamics and kinetics. The entropy generation approach has been suggested as a thermodynamic approach to evaluate the accessible states for cancer systems, in relation to their thermodynamic characteristic quantities. Cancer can be described as an open complex dynamic and self-organizing system. The stationary states of tumour systems are analyzed by a thermodynamic approach by using the entropy generation. The aim of this paper is to improve the thermodynamic approach to cell systems, based on the entropy generation. The results obtained consist of the theoretical analysis of the lifetimes of the processes which occur in cells and the numerical evaluation of the theoretical model proposed. Some considerations on the interactions between external fields and cell systems are developed. A possible new anticancer therapy based on the entropy generation is proposed.

Keywords: Thermodynamic anticancer therapy; Cancer; Cancer maximum volume; Entropy generation; Irreversibility; Processes time (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2014.03.053

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