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dc.contributor.author | Vandamme, Lode K J | - |
dc.contributor.author | de Hingh, Ignace H J T | - |
dc.contributor.author | Fonseca, Jorge | - |
dc.contributor.author | Rocha, Paulo R. F. | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-01-26T06:59:43Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2021-01-26T06:59:43Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2021-01-11 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 2045-2322 | pt |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10316/92633 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Cancer and pandemics are leading causes of death globally, with severe socioeconomic repercussions. To better understand these repercussions, we investigate similarities between pandemics and cancer and describe the limited growth in number of infections or cancer cells, using mathematical models. For a pandemic, the analysis shows that in most cases, the initial fast growth is followed by a slower decay in the recovery phase. The risk of infection increases due to the airborne virus contact crossing a risk-threshold. For cancers caused by carcinogens, the increasing risk with age and absorbed dose of toxins that cross a risk-threshold, may lead to the disease onset. The time scales are different for both causes of death: years for cancer development and days to weeks for contact with airborne viruses. Contamination by viruses is on a time scale of seconds or minutes. The risk-threshold to get ill and the number-threshold in cancer cells or viruses, may explain the large variability in the outcome. The number of infected persons per day is better represented in log-lin plots instead of the conventional lin-lin plots. Differences in therapies are discussed. Our mathematical investigation between cancer and pandemics reveals a multifactorial correlation between both fragilities and brings us one step closer to understand, timely predict and ultimately diminish the socioeconomic hurdle of both cancer and pandemics. | pt |
dc.language.iso | eng | pt |
dc.publisher | Nature Research | pt |
dc.rights | openAccess | pt |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | pt |
dc.title | Similarities between pandemics and cancer in growth and risk models | pt |
dc.type | article | - |
degois.publication.firstPage | 349 | pt |
degois.publication.issue | 1 | pt |
degois.publication.title | Scientific Reports | pt |
dc.relation.publisherversion | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-79458-w | pt |
dc.peerreviewed | yes | pt |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1038/s41598-020-79458-w | pt |
degois.publication.volume | 11 | pt |
dc.date.embargo | 2021-01-11 | * |
uc.date.periodoEmbargo | 0 | pt |
item.fulltext | Com Texto completo | - |
item.openairecristype | http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_18cf | - |
item.cerifentitytype | Publications | - |
item.grantfulltext | open | - |
item.languageiso639-1 | en | - |
item.openairetype | article | - |
crisitem.author.researchunit | CFE - Centre for Functional Ecology - Science for People & the Planet | - |
crisitem.author.orcid | 0000-0002-8917-9101 | - |
Appears in Collections: | FCTUC Eng.Electrotécnica - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais I&D CFE - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais |
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