  We consider a diffuse interface model for tumor growth consisting of a
Cahn--Hilliard equation with source terms coupled to a reaction-diffusion
equation, which models a tumor growing in the presence of a nutrient species
and surrounded by healthy tissue. The well-posedness of the system equipped
with Neumann boundary conditions was found to require regular potentials with
quadratic growth. In this work, Dirichlet boundary conditions are considered,
and we establish the well-posedness of the system for regular potentials with
higher polynomial growth and also for singular potentials. New difficulties are
encountered due to the higher polynomial growth, but for regular potentials, we
retain the continuous dependence on initial and boundary data for the chemical
potential and for the order parameter in strong norms as established in the
previous work. Furthermore, we deduce the well-posedness of a variant of the
model with quasi-static nutrient by rigorously passing to the limit where the
ratio of the nutrient diffusion time-scale to the tumor doubling time-scale is
small.
