Journal
SCIENTIFIC MODELING AND SIMULATIONS
Volume 15, Issue 1-3, Pages 381-393Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10820-008-9094-0
Keywords
Brain tumor; Agent-based model; Cellular automata; Continuum; Multi-scale
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- NIH [CA 113004]
- Harvard-MIT ( HST)
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In spite of all efforts, patients diagnosed with highly malignant brain tumors ( gliomas), continue to face a grim prognosis. Achieving significant therapeutic advances will also require a more detailed quantitative understanding of the dynamic interactions among tumor cells, and between these cells and their biological microenvironment. Data-driven computational brain tumor models have the potential to provide experimental tumor biologists with such quantitative and cost-efficient tools to generate and test hypotheses on tumor progression, and to infer fundamental operating principles governing bidirectional signal propagation in multicellular cancer systems. This review highlights the modeling objectives of and challenges with developing such in silico brain tumor models by outlining two distinct computational approaches: discrete and continuum, each with representative examples. Future directions of this integrative computational neuro-oncology field, such as hybrid multiscale multiresolution modeling are discussed.
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