Stationary patterns and stability in a tumor-immune interaction model with immunotherapy (Q2275494)

This paper concerns a diffusive tumor-immune system with immunotherapy under homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions. The large-time behavior of nonnegative equilibria is investigated as well as the persistence of solutions to the time-dependent system. Sufficient conditions for tumor-free states are given. The authors determine whether nonconstant positive steady-state solutions (i.e., a stationary pattern) exist for the coupled reaction-diffusion system when the parameter of the immunotherapy effect is small. The results show that the stationary pattern is driven by diffusion effects.