On optimal delivery of combination therapy for tumors

A d'Onofrio, U Ledzewicz, H Maurer… - Mathematical …, 2009 - Elsevier
A mathematical model for the scheduling of angiogenic inhibitors in combination with a
chemotherapeutic agent is formulated. Conditions are given that allow tumor eradication …

A synthesis of optimal controls for a model of tumor growth under angiogenic inhibitors

U Ledzewicz, H Schattler - … of the 44th IEEE Conference on …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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General applications of optimal control theory in cancer chemotherapy

GW Swan - Mathematical Medicine and Biology: A Journal of the …, 1988 - academic.oup.com
There are an increasing number of clinical papers dealing with the continuous delivery of an
anticancer drug to patients. In this paper, two basic theoretical models are presented of …

Application of optimal control theory to analysis of cancer chemotherapy regimens

AS Matveev, AV Savkin - Systems & control letters, 2002 - Elsevier
Cancer chemotherapy with application of one drug is studied. The negative and inhibiting
effect of the tumor on normal cells is taken into account. Under certain assumptions, we …

Optimal and suboptimal protocols for a mathematical model for tumor anti-angiogenesis in combination with chemotherapy

U Ledzewicz, H Maurer, H Schaettler - Mathematical Biosciences …, 2011 - inria.hal.science
We consider the problem of minimizing the tumor volume with a priori given amounts of anti-
angiogenic and cytotoxic agents. For one underlying mathematical model, optimal and …

Optimal scheduling of radiotherapy and angiogenic inhibitors

A Ergun, K Camphausen, LM Wein - Bulletin of mathematical biology, 2003 - Elsevier
We incorporate a previously validated mathematical model of a vascularized tumor into an
optimal control problem to determine the temporal scheduling of radiotherapy and …

Realizable protocols for optimal administration of drugs in mathematical models for anti-angiogenic treatment

U Ledzewicz, J Marriott, H Maurer… - … medicine and biology …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Two mathematical models for tumour anti-angiogenesis, one originally formulated by
Hahnfeldt et al.(1999, Tumor development under angiogenic signaling: a dynamical theory …

Optimal control for mathematical models of cancer therapies

H Schättler, U Ledzewicz - An application of geometric methods, 2015 - Springer
Cancer is a highly complex disease with a myriad of different manifestations. The reasons
for this simply lie not only in the many types of different cells that exist in our bodies, but also …

Drug kinetics and drug resistance in optimal chemotherapy

MIS Costa, JL Boldrini, RC Bassanezi - Mathematical biosciences, 1995 - Elsevier
A system of differential equations for the control of tumor cells growth in a cycle nonspecific
chemotherapy is presented. First-order drug kinetics and drug resistance are taken into …

Analysis of optimal controls for a mathematical model of tumour anti‐angiogenesis

U Ledzewicz, H Schättler - Optimal Control Applications and …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Anti‐angiogenic therapy is a novel treatment approach for cancer that aims at preventing a
tumour from developing its own blood supply system that it needs for growth. In this paper …