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Branching process models of cancer by Durrett in 2015

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1. Multistage theory of cancer

2. Mathematical overview

3. Branching process results

  • 3.1 Conditioned branching processes

4. Time for Z0 to reach size M

5. Time until the first type 1

6. Mutation before detection?

7. Accumulation of neutral mutations

8. Properties of the gamma function

9. Growth of \[Z_1(t)\]

10. Moments of \[Z_1(t)\]

11. Luria-Delbruck distributions

  • 11.1 Deterministic growth of type 1’s
  • 11.2 Lea-Coulson formulation

12. Number of type 1’s at time \[T_M\]

13. Growth of \[Z_k(t)\]

14. Transitions between waves

15. Time to the first type \[k, k \geq 2\]

16. Application: metastasis

17. Application: ovarian cancer

18. Application: intratumor heterogeneity

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