Mathematics and radiotherapy of tumors
The present work takes inspiration from the scientific degree plan of the Italian Ministry of Education and has a didactic and cultural character. It pursues three objectives: the first is to make young peo-ple understand the importance of mathematics in medicine; the second is to stimulate students...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Accademia Piceno Aprutina dei Velati
2019-06-01
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| Series: | Ratio Mathematica |
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| Online Access: | http://eiris.it/ojs/index.php/ratiomathematica/article/view/471 |
| Summary: | The present work takes inspiration from the scientific degree plan of the Italian Ministry of Education and has a didactic and cultural character. It pursues three objectives: the first is to make young peo-ple understand the importance of mathematics in medicine; the second is to stimulate students to use mathematical tools to give rational answers in the therapeutic field, in particular in the treatment of some types of nodular tumors; the third is to inform people on the effectiveness of mathematical methods and their indispensability in the rigorous treatment of some human pathologies.Using the experimental data about the development of a tumor, we move on to the analysis of the mathematical models able to allow a rational control of its behavior. The method we used in the develop-ment of this therapeutic process is essentially deterministic, even if some passages implicitly have a probabilistic nature. |
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| ISSN: | 1592-7415 2282-8214 |