


Volume 9 No 4 (2011)
Download PDF
A Proposed Mathematical Model of Tumor Growth and Host Consciousness
Miroslaw Kozlowski and Janina Marciak-Kozlowska
Abstract
In this paper a mathematical model for tumor growth based on a Boltzmanntype equation is formulated. The tumor growth factor is defined and the tumor
cell density is calculated. It is shown that tumor evolution strongly depends on
the growth factor k. For k<0.5 tumor density oscillates and the tumor is in the
“hesitate” state. For k>0.5 the tumor loses the oscillatory character and grows
abruptly and emits cells to the host body. We argue that the oscillation of tumor
density creates tumor waves which can be coined as tumor conscious waves. The
tumor waves “inform” host consciousness.
Keywords
Tumor, conscious, tumor waves, growth factor, density
Copyright
Copyright © Neuroquantology
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Articles published in the Neuroquantology are available under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives Licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Authors retain copyright in their work and grant IJECSE right of first publication under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Users have the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles in this journal, and to use them for any other lawful purpose.