Phase transitions in tumor growth: II prostate cancer cell lines

J.A. Llanos-Pérez, A. Betancourt-Mar, M.P. De Miguel, E. Izquierdo-Kulich, M. Royuela-García, E. Tejera and J.M. Nieto-Villar

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2015, vol. 426, issue C, 88-92

Abstract: We propose a mechanism for prostate cancer cell lines growth, LNCaP and PC3 based on a Gompertz dynamics. This growth exhibits a multifractal behavior and a “second order” phase transition. Finally, it was found that the cellular line PC3 exhibits a higher value of entropy production rate compared to LNCaP, which is indicative of the robustness of PC3, over to LNCaP and may be a quantitative index of metastatic potential tumors.

Keywords: Phase transition; Prostate cancer cell lines; Multifractal; Entropy production; Gompertz equation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2015.01.038

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