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Universal principles of cell population growth follow from local contact inhibition.

Gregory J Kimmel, Sadegh Marzban, Mehdi Damaghi, Arne Traulsen, Alexander R A Anderson, Jeffrey West, Philipp M Altrock

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Article in ArXiv, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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7 authors.

Gregory J KimmelDepartment of Integrated Mathematical Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, USA.
Sadegh MarzbanDepartment of Integrated Mathematical Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, USA.
Mehdi DamaghiStony Brook Cancer Center, Stony Brook School of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA.
Arne TraulsenDepartment of Theoretical Biology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Ploen, Germany.
Alexander R A AndersonDepartment of Integrated Mathematical Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, USA.
Jeffrey WestDepartment of Integrated Mathematical Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, USA.
Philipp M AltrockDepartment of Theoretical Biology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Ploen, Germany.

Funding

TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCHP30CA076292 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA · PI John L. Cleveland · 1998 to 2026
$93.5M
"Research Supplement to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research", as part of Moffitt PS-OC, "Cancer as a Complex adaptive System"U54CA193489 · NCI · H. LEE MOFFITT CANCER CTR & RES INST · PI ANDERSON, ALEXANDER ROBERTSON ALLAN, GATENBY, ROBERT A · 2015 to 2020
$12.5M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA076292NCI NIH HHS U54 CA193489
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancer cell populations often exhibit remarkably similar growth laws despite their heterogeneity. Explanations of universal cell population growth remain partly unresolved to this day. Here, we present a growth-law unification by investigating the connection between microscopic assumptions and the expected contact inhibition, which leads to five classical tumor growth laws: exponential, radial growth, fractal growth, generalized logistic, and Gompertzian growth. All five can be seen as manifestations of a single microscopic model. Agent-based simulations substantiate our theory, and we can explain differences in growth curves in experimental data from

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cancer growth curvescell motilitycontact inhibitionPopulation growth

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PMID42038417
PMCPMC13105202

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