Table 2.

Time for the cancer population to reach the size of 10⁹ cells with parameter values as listed in table 1 if not specified. Three fits to the predation decay are assumed and applied to decaying predation, decaying recruitment and decaying predation and recruitment.

	fit 1	fit 2	fit 3
	a0exp(−t/τ) a0 = 7.25 × 10−5 τ = 227.9	a0exp(−t/τ) a0 = a0 = 1.054 × 10−4 τ = 168.1	a0exp(−) a0 = 1.08 × 10−4 τ = 99.0
predation decay	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
predation decay with limited immune response	3100 days or 8.5 years (200 days after the immune limit is reached)	2367 days or 6.5 years (159 days after the immune limit is reached)	17 486 days or 47.9 years (438 days after the immune limit is reached)
recruitment decay	3159 days or 8.6 years	2334 days or 6.4 years	19 077 days or 52.2 years
predation and recruitment decay	3135 days or 8.6 years	2312 days or 6.3 years	18 901 days or 51.7 years