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Figure 2

From: Chance mechanisms affecting the burden of metastases

Figure 2

Size distribution for metastases. A model for the growth of metastases was based upon a stochastic birth process where the growth times of the individual colonies were normally distributed. Four thousand simulations were performed. The resultant frequency histogram for the logarithm of the number of cells per metastasis is shown here, and it approximated a normal distribution (solid line). This was equivalent to a lognormal distribution for the sizes of metastases.

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