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Statistical mechanics model of angiogenic tumor growth
We examine a lattice model of tumor growth where survival of tumor cells
depends on the supplied nutrients. When such a supply is random, the extinction
of tumors belongs to the directed percolation universality class. However, when
the supply is correlated with distribution of tumor cells, which as we suggest
might mimick the angiogenic growth, the extinction shows different, and most
likely novel critical behaviour. Such a correlation affects also the morphology
of the growing tumors and drastically raise tumor survival probability.Comment: 4 page