Quantifying metastatic inefficiency: rare genotypes versus rare dynamics.

Abstract excerpt

We introduce and solve a 'null model' of stochastic metastatic colonization. The model is described by a single parameter θ: the ratio of the rate of cell division to the rate of cell death for a disseminated tumour cell in a given secondary tissue environment. We are primarily interested in the case in which colonizing cells are poorly adapted for proliferation in the local tissue environment, so that cell death...

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