Opportunities for improving brain cancer treatment outcomes through imaging-based mathematical modeling of the delivery of radiotherapy and immunotherapy

DA Hormuth II, M Farhat, C Christenson, B Curl… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
Immunotherapy has become a fourth pillar in the treatment of brain tumors and, when
combined with radiation therapy, may improve patient outcomes and reduce the …

Intermittent radiotherapy as alternative treatment for recurrent high grade glioma: A modeling study based on longitudinal tumor measurements

SC Brüningk, J Peacock, CJ Whelan… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Recurrent high grade glioma patients face a poor prognosis for which no curative treatment
option currently exists. In contrast to prescribing high dose hypofractionated stereotactic …

Towards an image-informed mathematical model of in vivo response to fractionated radiation therapy

DA Hormuth, AM Jarrett, T Davis, TE Yankeelov - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Using medical imaging data and computational models, we develop a
modeling framework to provide personalized treatment response forecasts to fractionated …

Sigma-2 receptor/TMEM97 agonist PB221 as an alternative drug for brain tumor

CC Liu, CF Yu, SC Wang, HY Li, CM Lin, HH Wang… - BMC cancer, 2019 - Springer
Background There are limited effective drugs that can reach the brain to target brain tumors,
in particular glioblastoma, which is one of the most difficult cancers to be cured from …

Distinct tumor microenvironment at tumor edge as a result of astrocyte activation is associated with therapeutic resistance for brain tumor

CM Lin, CF Yu, HY Huang, FH Chen, JH Hong… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Tumor vasculatures and hypoxia are critical tumor micro-environmental factors associated
with tumor response to the therapy and heterogeneous in both time-and location-dependent …

[HTML][HTML] Patient-specific parameter estimates of glioblastoma multiforme growth dynamics from a model with explicit birth and death rates

L Han, S Eikenberry, C He, L Johnson… - Mathematical …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is an aggressive primary brain cancer with a grim prognosis.
Its morphology is heterogeneous, but prototypically consists of an inner, largely necrotic core …

Radial basis function-generated finite difference scheme for simulating the brain cancer growth model under radiotherapy in various types of computational domains

M Dehghan, N Narimani - Computer Methods and Programs in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Background and Objectives We extend the original mathematical model, ie,
Swanson's reaction-diffusion equation to the surfaces with no boundary, and we find a new …

Identification of 2-fluoropalmitic acid as a potential therapeutic agent against glioblastoma

S Jiapaer, T Furuta, Y Dong… - Current …, 2020 - ingentaconnect.com
Background: Glioblastomas (GBMs) are aggressive malignant brain tumors. Although
chemotherapy with temozolomide (TMZ) can extend patient survival, most patients …

Reaction-diffusion models for glioma tumor growth

M Martín-Landrove - arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.09409, 2017 - arxiv.org
Mathematical modelling of tumor growth is one of the most useful and inexpensive
approaches to determine and predict the stage, size and progression of tumors in realistic …

[PDF][PDF] Intermittent radiotherapy as alternative treatment for recurrent high grade glioma: A modelling study based on longitudinal tumor measurements

SC Bruningk, J Peacock, CJ Whelan, HHM Yu… - academia.edu
Recurrent high grade glioma patients face a poor prognosis for which no curative treatment
option currently exists. In contrast to prescribing high dose hypofractionated stereotactic …