Dynamical properties and tumor clearance conditions for a nine-dimensional model of bladder cancer immunotherapy

K. E. Starkov, S. Bunimovich-Mendrazitsky

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Abstract

Understanding the global interaction dynamics between tumor and the immune system plays a key role in the advancement of cancer therapy. Bunimovich-Mendrazitsky et al. (2015) developed a mathematical model for the study of the immune system response to combined therapy for bladder can- cer with Bacillus Calmette-Gufferin (BCG) and interleukin-2 (IL-2) . We utilized a mathematical approach for bladder cancer treatment model for derivation of ultimate upper and lower bounds and proving dissipativity property in the sense of Levinson. Furthermore, tumor clearance conditions for BCG treatment of bladder cancer are presented. Our method is based on localization of compact invariant sets and may be exploited for a prediction of the cells populations dynamics involved into the model.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1059-1075
Number of pages17
JournalMathematical Biosciences and Engineering
Volume13
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 2016

Keywords

  • BCG
  • Combined therapy
  • Compact invariant set
  • Dynamic modelling
  • IL-2
  • Localization
  • Ultimate dynamics

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