A Systems Biology view of Breast cancer via Fractal Geometry and Fractional Calculus
Breast cancer (BC) is the most widespread cancer globally, yet current diagnostic and prognostic methods inadequately capture its biological complexity, despite the benefits of early detection. Cancer systems biology (SB) has advanced over the past two decades as a multiscale approach, but often neglects morphological complexity observable at cellular, tissue, and tumor levels. Structural organization significantly influences system behavior, necessitating the identification of scales where morphological features emerge. Fractal geometry (FG) provides quantitative tools to assess the irregular, scale-invariant structures typical of cancer. Alongside FG, fractional calculus (FC) offers a framework to model memory-dependent and non-local dynamics. However, existing research remains constrained to mono-fractal analyses or limited imaging scopes, lacking integration into broader SB models. This review aims to bridge that gap by presenting core FG concepts, both mono- and multi-fractal measures, and their application to BC across histological, cytological, and radiological data. It further explores how FC enhances dynamic morphological modeling. Finally, it considers how number-theoretic tools like p-adic analysis may represent hierarchical genomic and morphological patterns, unifying insights from tumor morphology to genome organization.
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