Plutynski, Anya (2021) How is Cancer Complex? [Preprint]
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Abstract
Cancer is typically spoken of as a “complex” disease. But, in what sense are cancers “complex”? Is there one sense, or several? What implications does this complexity have – both for how we study, and how we intervene upon cancers? The
aim of this paper is first, to clarify the variety of senses in which cancer is spoken of as "complex" in the scientific literature, and second, to discover what explanatory and
predictive roles such features play.
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Keywords: | cancer, complexity, emergence, heterogeneity, robustness, feedback, modularity | ||||||
Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Biology Specific Sciences > Biology > Molecular Biology/Genetics General Issues > Causation Specific Sciences > Computation/Information General Issues > Explanation Specific Sciences > Medicine |
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Depositing User: | A Plutynski | ||||||
Date Deposited: | 07 Apr 2021 04:50 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 07 Apr 2021 04:50 | ||||||
Item ID: | 18884 | ||||||
Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Biology Specific Sciences > Biology > Molecular Biology/Genetics General Issues > Causation Specific Sciences > Computation/Information General Issues > Explanation Specific Sciences > Medicine |
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Date: | 2021 | ||||||
URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/18884 |
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