{"id":111,"date":"2005-07-05T04:32:32","date_gmt":"2005-07-05T04:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/krslab\/?p=111"},"modified":"2010-08-22T04:35:10","modified_gmt":"2010-08-22T04:35:10","slug":"the-right-equation-mathematicians-work-to-predict-tumor-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathematicalneurooncology.org\/?p=111","title":{"rendered":"The Right Equation: Mathematicians Work To Predict Tumor Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Journal of the National Cancer Institute article featuring the Swanson Lab as one of the few labs applying mathematical modeling tools to patient-specific data.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Statistics is well accepted as a tool in designing clinical<sup> <\/sup>trials and in analyzing clinical data. Similarly, mathematical<sup> <\/sup>theory has found applications in oncology; the current use of<sup> <\/sup>dose-dense chemotherapy, for example, arose from mathematical<sup> <\/sup>considerations. (<em>See<\/em> News, Vol. 95, No. 4, p.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jnci.oxfordjournals.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/jnci;95\/4\/254\">254<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>But the goal of the new mathematical oncology is to be able<sup> <\/sup>to model tumors so well that researchers can begin to use computers<sup> <\/sup>to guide treatment on an individual basis. Those working in<sup> <\/sup>the field say that recent successes are beginning to excite<sup> <\/sup>a new interest among physicians in applying math to cancer&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jnci.oxfordjournals.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/97\/13\/952\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for full article.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Journal of the National Cancer Institute article featuring the Swanson Lab as one of the few labs applying mathematical modeling tools to patient-specific data. &#8220;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, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathematicalneurooncology.org\/?p=111\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Right Equation: Mathematicians Work To Predict Tumor Growth&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathematicalneurooncology.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathematicalneurooncology.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathematicalneurooncology.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathematicalneurooncology.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathematicalneurooncology.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mathematicalneurooncology.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"https:\/\/mathematicalneurooncology.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathematicalneurooncology.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathematicalneurooncology.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathematicalneurooncology.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}