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Thermal Decoupling and Observability of Boundary-Transfer Regimes in Solid Tumors

Authors: Ahaneku, Oguike;

Thermal Decoupling and Observability of Boundary-Transfer Regimes in Solid Tumors

Abstract

Solid tumors frequently exhibit heterogeneous responses to therapy, immune infiltration, oxygenation, perfusion, metabolism, and heat transfer. These features are usually analyzed as separate biological or physical phenomena. This work develops a boundary-transfer observability framework in which a hidden tumor-domain transfer state is inferred from multiple imperfect projections, including transcriptomic coupling, immune and stromal physiology, internal source activity, genome-structural variables, and ultimately thermal transfer. The central hypothesis is not that all tumors are cold, or that tumor isolation implies a universal cold phenotype. The central hypothesis is that tumor domains with reduced cross-boundary physiological transfer should exhibit thermal decoupling. The direction of the observed temperature anomaly depends on internal source activity: low-source domains may appear cold or thermally inert, whereas high-source domains may appear warm or thermally unstable if heat generation persists while external exchange is suppressed. A transcriptome-derived coordinate, κ = (Cρ)/(H + ϵ), is evaluated in breast invasive carcinoma, lung adenocarcinoma, colon adenocarcinoma, and kidney renal clear cell carcinoma using The Cancer Genome Atlas expression data, PanImmune signature scores, mutation-load data, purity and ploidy estimates, and clinical annotations. Three levels of analysis are explicitly separated: cellular stabilized states, bulk transcriptomic regime structure, and tumor-domain physiological transfer. The complete multiscale generative mechanism connecting these levels is outside the scope of this manuscript. The empirical focus is narrower: to determine whether the transcriptomic projection κi carries non-random information about boundary-transfer regimes after aggressive circularity controls. A leak-proof pipeline was implemented using outcome-gene exclusion, cross-fitting, variance-rank-matched random-gene nulls, and residualization against source activity, tumor purity, tumor mutation burden, age, and immune-effector content. The results show that the current RNA projection is not universally observable. Breast invasive carcinoma exhibits a coherent RNA-visible transition, colon adenocarcinoma exhibits a residual-emergent signal after nuisance subtraction, lung adenocarcinoma exhibits stromal and inflammatory occlusion, and kidney renal clear cell carcinoma exhibits conditional entanglement and probable projection mismatch. These findings motivate dynamic rim-versus-bulk thermal transfer, rather than static whole-tumor temperature, as the appropriate physical validation endpoint.

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