The difficulty in treating cancer may be due to its complexity, in the mathematical physics sense of the word. Tumors evolve and spread in response to internal and external factors that involve feedback mechanisms and nonlinear behavior. The nonlinear interactions among cells, and between cells and their environment are crucial for developing a sufficiently detailed understanding of the system's emergent phenomenology. In the case of cancer, controlling the system's behavior will mean the ability to treat and cure the ...
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The difficulty in treating cancer may be due to its complexity, in the mathematical physics sense of the word. Tumors evolve and spread in response to internal and external factors that involve feedback mechanisms and nonlinear behavior. The nonlinear interactions among cells, and between cells and their environment are crucial for developing a sufficiently detailed understanding of the system's emergent phenomenology. In the case of cancer, controlling the system's behavior will mean the ability to treat and cure the disease. Physicists have been studying various complex, nonlinear systems for many years using theoretical, mathematical, computational, and experimental approaches. These investigations have provided insights that allow physicists to make unique contributions towards the treatment of cancer. This interdisciplinary book presents recent advancements in physicists' research on cancer. A variety of physical, biochemical, mathematical, and computational techniques as well as experimental and clinical data are used to gain a deeper molecular and cellular understanding of the horrific disease that is cancer.
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