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A mathematical
model of treatment of cancer stem cells with
immunotherapy
Zachary J. Abernathy and Gabrielle Epelle
Vol. 11 (2018), No. 3, 361–382
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Abstract |
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Using the work of Shelby Wilson and Doron Levy (2012), we develop a mathematical model to study the growth and responsiveness of cancerous tumors to various immunotherapy treatments. We use numerical simulations and stability analysis to predict long-term behavior of passive and aggressive tumors with a range of antigenicities. For high antigenicity aggressive tumors, we show that remission is only achieved after combination treatment with TGF- inhibitors and a peptide vaccine. Additionally, we show that combination treatment has limited effectiveness on low antigenicity aggressive tumors and that using TGF- inhibition or vaccine treatment alone proves generally ineffective for all tumor types considered. A key feature of our model is the identification of separate cancer stem cell and tumor cell populations. Our model predicts that even with combination treatment, failure to completely eliminate the cancer stem cell population leads to cancer recurrence. |
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Keywords
cancer stem cells, immunotherapy, recurrence, ordinary
differential equations, stability
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Mathematical Subject Classification 2010
Primary: 34D05, 34D20, 92B05, 92C37
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Milestones
Received: 2 September 2014
Revised: 21 April 2016
Accepted: 27 June 2017
Published: 20 October 2017
Communicated by Kenneth S. Berenhaut
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Authors |
| Zachary J. Abernathy | |
| Department of Mathematics Winthrop University Rock Hill, SC United States |
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| Gabrielle Epelle | |
| Department of Mathematics Winthrop University Rock Hill, SC United States |
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