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Defining the role of cooperation in early tumor progression.
Journal of theoretical biology - 21 Sept 2011
Krepkin Konstantin, Costa José
Abstract excerpt
Competition among cells has long been recognized as an important part of carcinogenesis. However, the role of cellular cooperation in cancer has been largely ignored. In this work, we investigated the role of cooperation in early tumor progression using a mathematical and agent-based modeling approach. We hoped to learn how the introduction of cooperative cells into a cell population would affect the dynamics of...
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