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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2005 97(13):952-953; doi:10.1093/jnci/dji195
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The Right Equation: Mathematicians Work To Predict Tumor Growth

Michael Smith

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Statistics is well accepted as a tool in designing clinical trials and in analyzing clinical data. Similarly, mathematical theory has found applications in oncology; the current use of dose-dense chemotherapy, for example, arose from mathematical considerations. (See News, Vol. 95, No. 4, p. 254.)

But the goal of the new mathematical oncology is to be able to model tumors so well that researchers can begin to use computers to guide treatment on an individual basis. Those working in the field say that recent successes are beginning to excite a new interest among physicians in applying math to cancer.

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