Modelling targets for anticancer drug control optimization in physiologically structured cell population models

  • Frédérique Billy
  • , Jean Clairambault
  • , Olivier Fercoq
  • , Tommaso Lorenzi
  • , Alexander Lorz
  • , Benoit Perthame

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Abstract

The main two pitfalls of therapeutics in clinical oncology, that limit increasing drug doses, are unwanted toxic side effects on healthy cell populations and occurrence of resistance to drugs in cancer cell populations. Depending on the constraint considered in the control problem at stake, toxicity or drug resistance, we present two different ways to model the evolution of proliferating cell populations, healthy and cancer, under the control of anti-cancer drugs. In the first case, we use a McKendrick age-structured model of the cell cycle, whereas in the second case, we use a model of evolutionary dynamics, physiologically structured according to a continuous phenotype standing for drug resistance. In both cases, we mention how drug targets may be chosen so as to accurately represent the effects of cytotoxic and of cytostatic drugs, separately, and how one may consider the problem of optimisation of combined therapies.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNumerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics, ICNAAM 2012 - International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics
Pages1323-1326
Number of pages4
Edition1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2012
EventInternational Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics, ICNAAM 2012 - Kos, Greece
Duration: 19 Sept 201225 Sept 2012

Publication series

NameAIP Conference Proceedings
Number1
Volume1479
ISSN (Print)0094-243X
ISSN (Electronic)1551-7616

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics, ICNAAM 2012
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityKos
Period19/09/1225/09/12

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

Keywords

  • Adaptive dynamics
  • Cancer
  • Cell division cycle
  • Cell population dynamics
  • Drug control
  • Partial Differential Equations
  • Physiologically structured Models

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