A Simple Mathematical Model for a New Type of Cancer Cells

Abstract

Introduction Hybrid tumor Cells Recently [1,2,3,4] hybrid tumor cells have been discovered. They have the following properties: a) They circulate more than ordinary tumor cells. b) They have greater ability to migrate and invade other tumors. c) They have greater ability to form metastases. Motivated by this the following simple model is presented: Let N1, N2 be the ordinary and hybrid tumor cells respectively. Let N=N1+N2 hence the tumor growth can be represented by