It is how it works with special people, as far as I am concerned. Nothing to do with Stirpes. Although certainly we do not promote egalitarianism of any type.
I wouldn't want to spoil you much, yet. But you are welcome to forward me your address, in case I suffered from a sunstroke during the summer and decided to change my mind.
Clearly you meant
in vitro experiments, not
in vivo.
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Originally Posted by Tabitha
The observation that the tumour first destroys the
surrounding extracellular matrix before then proliferating
is also interesting and I would be interested in reading
more about how you demonstrated that. I feel that this may
be something of an over-simplification.
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Well, obviously
I didn't demonstrate it, did I? Whatever crossed your mind..
I take it that you are drawing your conclusions from the 2003 paper. The first paper that I have been able to trace from that team is from 1998, which at least it should suggest that some research had been done before, and more until the date of publication of the 2003 paper.
Super-Rough Dynamics on Tumor Growth (1998)
Later to the 2003 paper, I've only been able to find a summary of another paper, published in 2004.
Pinning of tumoral growth by enhancement of the immune response. (2004)
And a response by the same team to a critique to their 2003 paper, published also in the Biophysical Journal in 2005.
Reply to Comments by Buceta and Galeano Regarding the Article “The Universal Dynamics of Tumor Growth” (2005)
I haven't found any more papers from Brú's team later to that date. Nor any further critiques to it. Admittedly, I may not have searched enough.
This other paper from an American team of Phycisists published in 2006, although it doesn't cite the previous, it might be of your interest too. I haven't even read into it though.
Dynamics and Pattern Formation in Invasive Tumor Growth (2006)
Whatever it may be, there seems to have been a growing interest in that approach since Brú published his paper in 1998. You might find more by running the appropriate keywords on a search engine, with the help of the list of papers in
Tumor
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I don't know if anyone else here has a love for this sort of thing
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I wouldn't call it a love for it, but I developed a certain temporary interest when a very dear friend of mine was diagnosed a cancer years ago, from which he died.
I understand the skepticism around these publications. I've been used to hear the almost automatic academic skeptical criticisms since I was a child.
Incidentally, at the time when my friend had this cancer, I had a conversation with the head of a center of Oncology here about an alternative treatment that he was following in Italy, which if I recall correctly was from an Italo-American Physician (but please, don't quote me on this last part). As I had expected, I met the same skeptical criticism to the method as I was accustomed to.
But my real interest started and, for any practical purposes, ended with his death. Anything beyond that moment is nothing but sheer curiousity, as with many other things.