ArticleOriginal scientific text

Title

Optimal Control in a Model of Chemotherapy-induced Radiosensilisation

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Abstract

  In this work, we consider a simple mathematical model of radiochemotherapy which includes a term responsible for radiosensitization. We focus on finding theoretically optimal controls which maximise tumour cure probability for a finite, fixed therapeutic horizon. We prove that the optimal controls for both therapies are of 0-bang type, a result which is not altered by the inclusion of the radiosensilization term. By means of numerical simulations, we show that optimal control offers a moderate increase in survival time over a sequential treatment. We then revisit in more detail a question of measuring the synergy between the therapies by means of isobolograms, a common experimental technique for measuring the additivity of two treatments.

Keywords

radiochemotherapy, optimal control, survival curves, radiosensilisation
Main language of publication
English
Published
2019
Published online
2019-07-11
Exact and natural sciences