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Tumour chemotherapy strategy based on impulse control theory
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Ren HP
; Yang Y
; Baptista MS
; Grebogi C
Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci
2017[Mar]; 375
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Chemotherapy is a widely accepted method for tumour treatment. A medical doctor
usually treats patients periodically with an amount of drug according to
empirical medicine guides. From the point of view of cybernetics, this procedure
is an impulse control system, where the amount and frequency of drug used can be
determined analytically using the impulse control theory. In this paper, the
stability of a chemotherapy treatment of a tumour is analysed applying the
impulse control theory. The globally stable condition for prescription of a
periodic oscillatory chemotherapeutic agent is derived. The permanence of the
solution of the treatment process is verified using the Lyapunov function and the
comparison theorem. Finally, we provide the values for the strength and the time
interval that the chemotherapeutic agent needs to be applied such that the
proposed impulse chemotherapy can eliminate the tumour cells and preserve the
immune cells. The results given in the paper provide an analytical formula to
guide medical doctors to choose the theoretical minimum amount of drug to treat
the cancer and prevent harming the patients because of over-treating.This article
is part of the themed issue 'Horizons of cybernetical physics'.