The contribution of evolutionary game theory to understanding and treating cancer

B Wölfl, H Te Rietmole, M Salvioli… - Dynamic Games and …, 2022 - Springer
Evolutionary game theory mathematically conceptualizes and analyzes biological
interactions where one's fitness not only depends on one's own traits, but also on the traits of …

Optimal control to develop therapeutic strategies for metastatic castrate resistant prostate cancer

JJ Cunningham, JS Brown, RA Gatenby… - Journal of theoretical …, 2018 - Elsevier
In metastatic castrate resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), abiraterone is conventionally
administered continuously at maximal tolerated dose until treatment failure. The majority of …

Optimal control and numerical software: an overview

HS Rodrigues, MTT Monteiro, DFM Torres - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2014 - arxiv.org
Optimal Control (OC) is the process of determining control and state trajectories for a
dynamic system, over a period of time, in order to optimize a given performance index. With …

Optimal control analysis of a malaria disease transmission model that includes treatment and vaccination with waning immunity

KO Okosun, R Ouifki, N Marcus - Biosystems, 2011 - Elsevier
We derive and analyse a deterministic model for the transmission of malaria disease with
mass action form of infection. Firstly, we calculate the basic reproduction number, R0, and …

Modelling the impact of some control strategies on the transmission dynamics of Ebola virus in human-bat population: An optimal control analysis

JO Agbomola, AC Loyinmi - Heliyon, 2022 - cell.com
Qualitative research and comprehensive public awareness to nip the transmission of Ebola
virus in the bud before it becomes a global threat is fast becoming imperative especially now …

Optimal anti-amyloid-beta therapy for Alzheimer's disease via a personalized mathematical model

W Hao, S Lenhart, JR Petrella - PLoS computational biology, 2022 - journals.plos.org
With the recent approval by the FDA of the first disease-modifying drug for Alzheimer's
Disease (AD), personalized medicine will be increasingly important for appropriate …

[PDF][PDF] Optimal control of vaccination and treatment for an SIR epidemiological model

TT Yusuf, F Benyah - World journal of modelling and simulation, 2012 - Citeseer
We consider an SIR model with variable size population and formulate an optimal control
problem subject to the model with vaccination and treatment as controls. Our aim is to find …

Mathematical modelling of growth of tumour cells with chemotherapeutic cells by using Yang–Abdel–Cattani fractional derivative operator

MN Mishra, AF Aljohani - Journal of Taibah University for Science, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Cancer is a fatal disease for a very long time. It has its own history. Now it has become one
of the major reasons for death due to its various types. Researchers, scientists and doctors …

A survey of optimization models on cancer chemotherapy treatment planning

J Shi, O Alagoz, FS Erenay, Q Su - Annals of Operations Research, 2014 - Springer
While chemotherapy is an effective method for treating cancers such as colorectal cancer, its
effectiveness may be dampened by the drug resistance and it may have significant side …

An Introduction to Optimal Control with an Application in Disease Modeling.

RM Neilan, S Lenhart - Modeling paradigms and analysis of …, 2010 - books.google.com
This paper serves as an introduction to the theory of optimal control applied to systems of
ordinary differential equations with emphasis on disease models. We outline the steps in …