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Niche construction concept was originally defined in evolutionary biology as the
continuous interplay between natural selection via environmental conditions and
the modification of these conditions by the organism itself. Processes unraveling
during cancer metastasis include construction of niches, which cancer cells use
towards more efficient survival, transport into new environments and preparation
of the remote sites for their arrival. Many elegant experiments were done lately
illustrating, for example, the premetastatic niche construction, but there is
practically no mathematical modeling done which would apply the niche
construction framework. To create models useful for understanding niche
construction role in cancer progression, we argue that a) genetic, b) phenotypic
and c) ecological levels are to be included. While the model proposed here is
phenomenological in its current form, it can be converted into a predictive
outcome model via experimental measurement of the model parameters. Here we give
an overview of an experimentally formulated problem in cancer metastasis and
propose how niche construction framework can be utilized and broadened to model
it. Other life science disciplines, such as host-parasite coevolution, may also
benefit from niche construction framework adaptation, to satisfy growing need for
theoretical considerations of data collected by experimental biology.