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Medical imaging plays a central role in cancer therapy, however scans cannot detect the full extent of infiltrative brain tumors. Post-mortem and histological studies show that tumor cells can be found even 2 cm beyond the tumor outlines visible on the medical scans. Current radiotherapy planning is handling these uncertainties in a rather rudimentary fashion
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Lipkova, J., Rossinelli, D., Koumoutsakos, P., Lowengrub, J., Menze, B. (2020). Peak of the Iceberg. In: Matthäus, F., Matthäus, S., Harris, S., Hillen, T. (eds) The Art of Theoretical Biology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33471-0_9
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