The asynchronous exponential growth property in a model for the kinetic heterogeneity of tumour cell populations

A continuous cell population model, which represents both the cell cycle phase structure and the kinetic heterogeneity of the population following Shackney's ideas [J. Theor. Biol. 38 (1973) 305-333], is studied. The asynchronous exponential growth property is proved in the framework of the theory of strongly continuous semigroups of bounded linear operators.