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Agent Based Modeling of Lung Metastasis-Immune System Competition

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Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS 2009)

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The Triplex vaccine is a cell vaccine developed as an immunopreventive approach to breast cancer. Recent studies showed that the same vaccine has a considerable therapeutic effect against lung metastases derived by mammary carcinoma[1].

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Catania, V. le A. Doria, 6, 95100(CT), Italy

    Marzio Pennisi, Francesco Pappalardo & Santo Motta

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of York, YO10 5DD, Heslington, York, UK

    Paul S. Andrews

  2. Departments of Computer Science and Electronics, University of York, YO10 5DD, Heslington, York, UK

    Jon Timmis

  3. Department of Electronics, University of York, YO10 5DD, Heslington, York, UK

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  5. School of Computing, Napier University, 10 Colinton Road, EH10 5DT, Edinburgh, UK

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  6. Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Kent, CT2 7NF, Canterbury, UK

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Pennisi, M., Pappalardo, F., Motta, S. (2009). Agent Based Modeling of Lung Metastasis-Immune System Competition. In: Andrews, P.S., et al. Artificial Immune Systems. ICARIS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5666. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03246-2_1

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