What are the challenges facing cancer therapy base on the dissipative structure theory

摘要

Cancer therapy is facing challenges.Since current theory could not have a breakthrough,we ought to find a new way to conquer cancer by exploring the emerging theory in cancer therapy.The complexity science,emerging in the 1980s,is the new stage of the system science development.It raises a series of transformation from humanities to natural science.Dissipative structure theory as a major science of complexity science,when applied to medical field,probable provide opportunity and inspiration referring to treatment.Dissipative structure theory,in brief,claims that a dissipative structure transform chaos to relatively stable non-equilibrium state through non-equilibrium phase transition.From the microscopic order,cancer composed by tumor cells is a dissipative structure,whose external environment is the human body.From the macroscopic order,the human body is a dissipative structure,whose external environment is the natural and social environment.The reason for tumor occurrence and progression is relatively non-equilibrium disrupted and negative entropy is not enough to correct high positive entropy.Survival with the tumor is to enhance negative entropy to resist highly positive entropy and then build a new relative non-equilibrium state.Innovative angle from the theory may enlighten us make the better use of dissipative structure theory in clinical cancer therapy.