Mathematical medicine: modeling cancer and its treatments

物理学和数学在医学中的应用是跨学科研究中发展最快的领域之一。数学建模可以提供一个定量的框架来详细讨论复杂生物系统的所有组成部分之间的相互作用，以及测试各种治疗干预措施。新的计算技术和数学模型的结合，以实验和临床数据为基础，从而为生物医学研究提供了一个强大的新工具。一个重要的应用是建模肿瘤生长及其治疗。

The application of physics and mathematics to medicine is one of the most rapidly growing areas of interdisciplinary research. Mathematical modeling can provide a quantitative framework to discuss, in detail, the interaction between all components of complex biological systems, as well as to test various therapeutic interventions. The combination of novel computational techniques and mathematical models, grounded in experimental and clinical data, thus provides a powerful new tool in biomedical research. One important application is to modeling tumor growth and its treatment.