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 …

Multidrug cancer therapy in metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer: an evolution-based strategy

JB West, MN Dinh, JS Brown, J Zhang… - Clinical Cancer …, 2019 - AACR
Purpose: Integration of evolutionary dynamics into systemic therapy for metastatic cancers
can prolong tumor control compared with standard maximum tolerated dose (MTD) …

Capitalizing on competition: An evolutionary model of competitive release in metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer treatment

J West, Y Ma, PK Newton - Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2018 - Elsevier
The development of chemotherapeutic resistance resulting in tumor relapse is largely the
consequence of the mechanism of competitive release of pre-existing resistant tumor cells …

Integrating evolutionary dynamics into treatment of metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer

J Zhang, JJ Cunningham, JS Brown… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Abiraterone treats metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer by inhibiting CYP17A, an
enzyme for testosterone auto-production. With standard dosing, evolution of resistance with …

Evolution-based mathematical models significantly prolong response to abiraterone in metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer and identify strategies to further …

J Zhang, J Cunningham, J Brown, R Gatenby - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Background: Abiraterone acetate is an effective treatment for metastatic castrate-resistant
prostate cancer (mCRPC), but evolution of resistance inevitably leads to progression. We …

Optimal control to reach eco-evolutionary stability in metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer

J Cunningham, F Thuijsman, R Peeters, Y Viossat… - Plos one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
In the absence of curative therapies, treatment of metastatic castrate-resistant prostate
cancer (mCRPC) using currently available drugs can be improved by integrating …

Turnover modulates the need for a cost of resistance in adaptive therapy

MAR Strobl, J West, Y Viossat, M Damaghi… - Cancer research, 2021 - AACR
Adaptive therapy seeks to exploit intratumoral competition to avoid, or at least delay, the
emergence of therapy resistance in cancer. Motivated by promising results in prostate …

Prostate-specific antigen dynamics predict individual responses to intermittent androgen deprivation

R Brady-Nicholls, JD Nagy, TA Gerke, T Zhang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Intermittent androgen deprivation therapy (IADT) is an attractive treatment for biochemically
recurrent prostate cancer (PCa), whereby cycling treatment on and off can reduce …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting patient-specific response to adaptive therapy in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer using prostate-specific antigen dynamics

R Brady-Nicholls, J Zhang, T Zhang, AZ Wang, R Butler… - Neoplasia, 2021 - Elsevier
Abiraterone acetate (AA) has been proven effective for metastatic castration-resistant
prostate cancer (mCRPC), and it has been proposed that adaptive AA may reduce toxicity …

Spatial structure impacts adaptive therapy by shaping intra-tumoral competition

MAR Strobl, J Gallaher, J West… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Background Adaptive therapy aims to tackle cancer drug resistance by leveraging resource
competition between drug-sensitive and resistant cells. Here, we present a theoretical study …