Abstract
This paper generalizes the integer-order model of the tumour growth into the fractional-order domain, where the long memory dependence of the fractional derivative can be a better fit for the cellular response. This model describes the dynamics of cancer stem cells and non-stem (ordinary) cancer cells using a coupled system of nonlinear integro-differential equations. Our analysis focuses on the existence and boundedness of the solution in correlation with the properties of Mittag-Leffler functions and the fixed point theory elucidating the proof. Some numerical examples with different fractional orders are shown using the finite difference scheme, which is easily implemented and reliably accurate. Finally, numerical simulations are employed to investigate the influence of system parameters on cancer progression and to confirm the evidence of tumour growth paradox in the presence of cancer stem cells.
Subject
Statistics and Probability,Statistical and Nonlinear Physics,Analysis
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