The development of resistance to anticancer agents

The mechanism of resistance of tumor cells to chemotherapeutic agents is explored using probabilistic methods where it is assumed that resistant cells arise spontaneously with a defined frequency. The resistance process is embedded in a discrete time Markov branching process which models the growth...

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Main Author: Coldman, Andrew James
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/26975