• DocumentCode
    3466647
  • Title

    Control theoretic approach to combined anticancer therapies

  • Author

    Swierniak, A.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Autom. Control, Silesian Univ. of Technol., Gliwice, Poland
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    22-25 Aug. 2011
  • Firstpage
    310
  • Lastpage
    315
  • Abstract
    A model of a combination of antiangiogenic treatment and chemotherapy is proposed and analyzed. The model is a modified Hahnfeldt model and the analysis has two goals: first of all we check stability of the equilibrium point of the model to find conditions leading to tumour eradication for constant dosing and periodic treatment then we propose an optimization problem and give necessary conditions of its solution. We discuss modifications of the model which enable more realistic description of treatment effects.
  • Keywords
    medical control systems; optimisation; patient treatment; antiangiogenic treatment; anticancer therapies; chemotherapy; constant dosing; control theoretic approach; modified Hahnfeldt model; optimization problem; periodic treatment; tumour eradication; Analytical models; Cancer; Drugs; Equations; Mathematical model; Tumors;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Methods and Models in Automation and Robotics (MMAR), 2011 16th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Miedzyzdroje
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0912-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MMAR.2011.6031364
  • Filename
    6031364