Antonio Brú is a mathematician from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and member of the Center of Environmental Sciences , organism pertaining to the Spanish Superior Council of Scientific researches (CSIC).  Around a year ago he jumped into fame when he applied physics mathematical approaches to a problem that until then was almost exclusively of doctors, cancer.

Brú has been both applauded and denigrated. More of the former than the latter, by raising that all the cancer tumors grow in the same way. Such simple affirmation ruins the theory of the exponential growth of tumor-like cells, the foundation of present day chemotherapy treatments against cancer.

What Brú has done is to apply mathematics, to analyze the evolution of a system, which is being studied by the scientists who met recently in Gijón, acknowledged Jesus Perez del Rio , one of the organizers of the meeting. The work of Brú, consisting in modeling the time evolution of dynamic systems, can be applied to physiological processes such as the evolution of cancer cells. Even so, Perez del Rio emphasizes that the work agenda 'does not seek sensationalist answers' although it is possible that the solutions that they could offer -to other sciences- may turn out later to be prime news, as it was the case with Brú.

Antonio Brú has done no more than to create a model of cancer's evolution.

The publication of the results of the last model in one scientific magazine and the public disclosure that the mathematician did later in that case unleashed a big wave of criticisms on behalf of the oncologist community.

The physicist and mathematics professor of denounced that the scientific community fallen over him for entering terrains exclusively reserved for the oncologists. Professor Brú has questioned the theories that each tumor is a world and, applying mathematics, has reached the conclusion that all are worlds -and tumors- are alike. Yet he still continues immersed in this investigation.