Cancer chemotherapy: Optimal control using the Verhulst-Pearl equation (Q1820077)
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Cancer chemotherapy: Optimal control using the Verhulst-Pearl equation (English)
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1986
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This paper examines the optimal dose problem for a continuously delivered chemotherapeutic agent against a tumor. After examining several functional forms for tumor growth dynamics, the author uses a logistic (Verhulst-Pearl) equation for the untreated growth and two different models, linear or saturation, for the loss term. Using quadratic objective functions, the author examines the form of the optimal control in both cases.
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cancer chemotherapy
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Verhulst-Pearl equation
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logistic equation
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linear model
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saturation model
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optimal dose problem
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tumor growth dynamics
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quadratic objective functions
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optimal control
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