{"id":133,"date":"2008-12-08T04:15:04","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T04:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/krslab\/?p=133"},"modified":"2010-08-23T04:29:59","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T04:29:59","slug":"can-mathematics-treat-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathematicalneurooncology.org\/?p=133","title":{"rendered":"Can Mathematics Treat Cancer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Can Math Treat Cancer?\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lifeweek.com.cn\/2008-11-24\/images\/10618.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"147\" \/>&#8220;The combination of mathematical models and biological data will change cancer research into a\u00a0quantitative and predictable science.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">&#8220;Kristin Swanson is a 33-year-old female mathematician, and is an Associate Professor of<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">Pathology at the University of Washington in the United States. Her work sounds very cool\u2013using mathematics to study cancer.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cFor mathematicians, all of the world\u2019s problems are mathematical. All phenomena in daily life\u00a0can be explained by math,\u201d she told our reporter. \u201cCancer is no exception.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>The combination of mathematical models and biological data will change cancer research into a quantitative and predictable science.Kristin Swanson is a 33-year-old female mathematician, and is an Associate Professor of Pathology at the University of Washington in the United States. Her work sounds very cool \u2013using mathematics to study cancer.\u201cFor mathematicians, all of the world\u2019s problems are mathematical. All phenomena in daily lifecan be explained by math,\u201d she told our reporter. \u201cCancer is no exception.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeweek.com.cn\/2008-12-08\/0002423302.shtml\">Read full here<\/a> in Chinese. \u00a0For our translation by Mindy Szeto,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pathology.washington.edu\/research\/labs\/swanson\/text\/Lifeweek.pdf\"> click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The combination of mathematical models and biological data will change cancer research into a\u00a0quantitative and predictable science.&#8221; &#8220;Kristin Swanson is a 33-year-old female mathematician, and is an Associate Professor of Pathology at the University of Washington in the United States. Her work sounds very cool\u2013using mathematics to study cancer. \u201cFor mathematicians, all of the world\u2019s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathematicalneurooncology.org\/?p=133\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Can Mathematics Treat Cancer?&#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\/133"}],"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=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mathematicalneurooncology.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139,"href":"https:\/\/mathematicalneurooncology.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathematicalneurooncology.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathematicalneurooncology.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathematicalneurooncology.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}