Model of Lung Cancer Progression and Metastasis—Need for a Delay

A deterministic model consisting of both an ordinary differential equation and delay differential equations was proposed to describe the problem of lung cancer growth and its metastatic progression. In order to represent the behaviour of a virtual population of affected individuals, some of the model parameters are randomly generated. This approach makes it possible to determine certain characteristics describing the population, such as the classification of the primary cancer, location of the metastasis or the estimation of survival curves.