“…In the late 2000s, the work of Atici and Eloe [10][11][12][13][14] provided many new insights into discrete fractional calculus and open the door to numerous further investigations. Many other papers have subsequently appeared, such as those by Abdeljawad, 15 Agarwal et al, 16 Ahrendt et al, 17 Anastassiou, 18 Atici and Abdeljawad, 19 Eloe and Ouyang, 20 Ferreira, 21,22 Ghorbanian and Rezapour, 23 Hein et al, 24 Holm, 25 Huang et al, 26 Leal et al, 27 Lizama, 28 Lizama and Murillo-Arcila, 29,30 Ma et al, 31 Reunsumrit and Sitthiwirattham, 32 Rezapour and Salehi, 33 and Xu and Zhang, 34 each of which has further explored various fundamental properties of discrete fractional differences and sums-for example, Gronwall-type inequalities, boundary and initial value problems, and various modifications of the fractional sum and difference used in above mentioned papers of Atici and Eloe. We also note that there have also been some interesting attempts to use fractional difference calculus in modeling-for example, see the papers by Atici et al, 35 Wang et al, 36 and Wu et al 37 In particular, the recent paper by Atici et al 38 discussed the use of discrete fractional calculus in cancer and tumor modeling. An earlier discrete fractional model for tumor growth can be found in the paper by Atici andŞengül.…”