[extropy-chat] Fighting Cancer with Math

[Samantha Atkins]

What the heck is "a mathematical formula to strengthen the immune  
system"?  This is a  peculiar phrase.   The snippet "the evolution of  
solid tumors depends on a mathematical equation" isn't a lot  
better.   Was this article translated from another language?  Does  
anyone have a fish I can stick in my ear?

To think I gave up on a career as a mathematician before realizing  
the full power of mere equations to heal the terminally ill!

The underlying story is no doubt interesting stuff but it got a bit  
garbled along the way.

- s

On Jun 2, 2005, at 10:15 PM, Giu1i0 Pri5c0 wrote:

> Now this has made it to Slashdot: A group of scientists have  
> developed a mathematical method to fight certain forms of cancer.  
> The study has taken the team several years, but the first trial on  
> a human has been successful. You can read the actual paper. 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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