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Main Authors: Pan, Guanjun, Yin, Hong-Ming
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.08929
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author Pan, Guanjun
Yin, Hong-Ming
author_facet Pan, Guanjun
Yin, Hong-Ming
contents In this paper, we study a well-posedness problem on a new mathematical model for cancer invasion within the plasminogen activation system, which explicitly incorporates cooperation with host normal cells. Key biological mechanisms--including chemotaxis, haptotaxis, recruitment, logistic growth, and natural degradation of normal cells--along with other primary components (cancer cells, vitronectin, uPA, uPAI-1 and plasmin) are modeled via a continuum framework of cancer cell invasion of the extracellular matrix. The resulting model constitutes a strongly coupled, cross-diffusion hybrid system of differential equations. The primary mathematical challenges arise from the strongly coupled cross-diffusion terms, the parabolic operators of divergence form, and the interaction between the cross-diffusion fluxes and the ODE components. We address these by deriving several a priori estimates for dimensions d less or equal to 3. Subsequently, we employ a decoupling strategy to split the system into proper sub-problems, establishing the existence (and uniqueness) for each subsystem. Finally, we demonstrate the global existence and uniqueness of the solution for dimensions d less or equal to 2 and the global existence of a solution for dimension d = 3.
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spellingShingle On a cross-diffusion hybrid model: Cancer Invasion Tissue with Normal Cell Involved
Pan, Guanjun
Yin, Hong-Ming
Analysis of PDEs
In this paper, we study a well-posedness problem on a new mathematical model for cancer invasion within the plasminogen activation system, which explicitly incorporates cooperation with host normal cells. Key biological mechanisms--including chemotaxis, haptotaxis, recruitment, logistic growth, and natural degradation of normal cells--along with other primary components (cancer cells, vitronectin, uPA, uPAI-1 and plasmin) are modeled via a continuum framework of cancer cell invasion of the extracellular matrix. The resulting model constitutes a strongly coupled, cross-diffusion hybrid system of differential equations. The primary mathematical challenges arise from the strongly coupled cross-diffusion terms, the parabolic operators of divergence form, and the interaction between the cross-diffusion fluxes and the ODE components. We address these by deriving several a priori estimates for dimensions d less or equal to 3. Subsequently, we employ a decoupling strategy to split the system into proper sub-problems, establishing the existence (and uniqueness) for each subsystem. Finally, we demonstrate the global existence and uniqueness of the solution for dimensions d less or equal to 2 and the global existence of a solution for dimension d = 3.
title On a cross-diffusion hybrid model: Cancer Invasion Tissue with Normal Cell Involved
topic Analysis of PDEs
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.08929