Cancer, angiogenesis and fractals
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Fractals and cancer.
Recent studies have shown that fractal geometry, a vocabulary of irregular shapes, can be useful for describing the pathological architecture of tumors and, perhaps more surprisingly, for yielding insights into the mechanisms of tumor growth and angiogenesis that complement those obtained by modern molecular methods. This article outlines the basic methods of fractal geometry and discusses the ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nature Medicine
سال: 1998
ISSN: 1078-8956,1546-170X
DOI: 10.1038/1952