Journal of Numerical Simulations in Physics and Mathematics | Volume 3, Issue 1: 38-50, 2027 | DOI: 10.62762/JNSPM.2026.765432
Abstract
This study formulates a mathematical and computational model of tumor-cell-density regression in pancreatic cancer treated with carbon-ion hadron therapy. A reaction-diffusion equation with logistic proliferation and a local radiation-induced loss term is derived term by term, discretized with a two-dimensional finite-difference scheme and forward Euler time stepping, and implemented in Python. The treatment input follows a published carbon-ion schedule of 48~Gy(RBE) in 12 fractions of 4~Gy(RBE). The simulation produces sequential two- and three-dimensional maps of the modeled tumor-cell density as a function of accumulated dose; in the three-dimensional reconstruction the relative tumor
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