[extropy-chat] Fighting Cancer with Math

[Giu1i0 Pri5c0]

Now this has made it to
Slashdot<http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/31/2240240>
:* A group of scientists have developed a mathematical method to fight 
certain forms of
cancer<http://www.euroresidentes.com/Blogs/2005/05/spanish-scientists-use-maths-to-cure.htm>.
The study has taken the team several years, but the first trial on a human 
has been successful. You can read the actual
paper<http://www.biophysj.org/cgi/content/abstract/85/5/2948>.
It looks like a huge advancement in science, because there's a possibility 
to extrapolate the method to other types of cancer"* From the article: *"The 
researchers have evidence to show that all tumors grow in the same way, 
irrespective of the tissue or species in which they develop. In a previous 
paper, these researchers reported that tumor growth, rather than being 
exponential as commonly believed, is a much slower "linear" process similar 
to the growth of certain crystals and other natural phenomena.*
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