Math for Medicine
Suncica Canic and other mathematics faculty members at the University of Houston are at the forefront of an emerging field that combines math and bioscience to yield new medical breakthroughs.
In 2008, researchers from UH, Rice University, and the Texas Medical Center formed the Center for Mathematical Biosciences, which is poised to become the world's leading center for integrating advanced mathematics with medical research.
The center builds on collaborative research that is already producing results. A study done by Canic and a cardiologist at the Texas Heart Institute on using mathematical modeling to improve artery stents was published in the most widely read cardiovascular journal.
By developing complex mathematical models that evaluate how blood flows in pulsating arteries and how artery stents behave when inserted into the human body, Canic is working to create more biocompatible devices that can keep arteries open.
The center's researchers also are studying nanoparticles to improve cancer drug delivery. Advanced mathematical simulations are helping scientists design microscopic containers loaded with cancer drugs that will deliver the medicine directly to cancer cells.
Other ongoing research at the center includes medical image analysis and the study of neuronal networks. The work of the center's scientists represents the cutting edge of a new mathematics that can solve real-world medical problems.
No other institution combines both the concentration of bioscience mathematicians with the largest medical center in North America.
With 14 bioscience mathematicians on faculty, the UH Department of Mathematics has become a leader in the emerging field of math bioscience. The high-level mathematics they use in medical research cannot be done by biomedical engineers alone and is the unique expertise of mathematicians. 
Functional numeracy is as essential to an aspiring medical professional as functional literacy. As a physician, perhaps the most important mathematical skills you will need are:
1. Basic mathematical knowledge sufficient to calculate drug doses, concentrations, etc.
2. An understanding of the core statistical concepts most commonly represented in the medical literature.
3. Knowledge of algebra to understand calculations of acid–base status, etc.
4. Ability to appreciate whether or not results are mathematically plausible.
(Nusbaum, 2006)
The careful logical reasoning that is necessary for the study of mathematics is an essential element of clinical reasoning. Although you do not need higher mathematics to get through medical school, you will need the ability to manipulate numbers, including fractions, ratios, powers of 10 and logarithms. You will also need a basic understanding of probability, graphs and simple algebra. You will need to rearrange equations and convert between units of measure.
Mathematical equation dealing with cancer, fighting it strongly!
Tumors is one of the most lethal diseases in human beings, so fun specialists and researchers of scientific studies and laboratory experiments in order to reach an effective treatment for each resort where those to the various branches of science in order to achieve this. However, a recent search of unique uses mathematics to predict the behavior of cancerous tumor to fight and eliminate it.
Has been able to researchers from Britain and the United States to develop a mathematical model helps to predict the future situation of cancerous tumors that affect the rights and determine their behavior during the period of time to come, which may contribute to determine the optimal type of treatment for each phase. Dr. Alexander Anderson competent science mathematics from the University of "Dundee" the British worked to develop a mathematical model which can predict the activity of cancer cells and the status of the tumor on the spread and development in a manner similar to the monitors the weather in the expectation of the future weather situation
Has been conducting laboratory experiments and mathematical research in this area with the help of researchers from the United States aimed to focus on the environmental conditions surrounding the tumor as a contributing factor in the inhibition of tumor growth or increase the speed of its spread.
Recalling the results of a study published in the journal Cell that this mathematical model focuses on the surrounding environment by which cancer cells grow where he can predict the behavior of the tumor through the study and assess the status of the surrounding tissue. According to the study has shown this model to make the environmental conditions surrounding the tumors more difficult for the growth of the tumor cell through the use of certain treatments, or will cause to become cancer cells surviving more aggressive and more violent, it has turned a few remaining cancer cells in a patient after the removal of The tumor, the tumor was spreading throughout the body.
Thus, the researchers hope through the development of a computer program in the future application of the principles of this mathematical model to enable specialists to predict the behavior of the tumor in a patient during a period of time to come, just as it does Monitors air traffic controllers in their attempts to predict the weather in the coming days
