The method of characteristics applied to a stochastic two-stage model of carcinogenesis

  • Authors:

  • D. W. Quinn

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Mathematics and Statistics Air Force Institute of Technology Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH 45433, U.S.A.

  • Venue:
  • Mathematical and Computer Modelling: An International Journal
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

The probability of tumor and hazard function are calculated in a fully stochastic two-stage model for carcinogenesis when the parameters of the model are time dependent. The method used is the method of characteristics.