Publications by authors named "Piero Giorgio Degiorgis"

Both the lack of nutrient supply and rising mechanical stress exerted by the microenvironment appear to be able to cause discrepancies between the actual, observed tumor mass and that predicted by West et al.'s [A general model for ontogenetic growth. Nature 2001;413:628-31] universal growth model.

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A general model for the ontogenetic growth of living organisms has been recently proposed. Here we investigate the extension of this model to the growth of solid malignant tumors. A variety of in vitro and in vivo data are analysed and compared with the prediction of a "universal" law, relating properly rescaled tumor masses and tumor growth times.

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