Now this has made it to <a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/31/2240240">Slashdot</a>:<i><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>A group of scientists have developed a <a href="http://www.euroresidentes.com/Blogs/2005/05/spanish-scientists-use-maths-to-cure.htm">
mathematical
method to fight certain forms of cancer</a>. The study has taken the team
several years, but <span style="background-color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">the first trial on a human has been successful</span>. You can read
the actual <a href="http://www.biophysj.org/cgi/content/abstract/85/5/2948">paper</a>. It
looks like a huge advancement in science, because there's a possibility to
extrapolate the method to other types of cancer"</i> From the article: <i>"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.</i>