Mathematical Modeling Shows That the Response of a Solid Tumor to Antiangiogenic Therapy Depends on the Type of Growth

Maxim Kuznetsov
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Maxim Kuznetsov: P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 53 Leninskiy Prospekt, Moscow 119991, Russia

Mathematics, 2020, vol. 8, issue 5, 1-19

Abstract: It has been hypothesized that solid tumors with invasive type of growth should possess intrinsic resistance to antiangiogenic therapy, which is aimed at cessation of the formation of new blood vessels and subsequent shortage of nutrient inflow to the tumor. In order to investigate this effect, a continuous mathematical model of tumor growth is developed, which considers variables of tumor cells, necrotic tissue, capillaries, and glucose as the crucial nutrient. The model accounts for the intrinsic motility of tumor cells and for the convective motion, arising due to their proliferation, thus allowing considering two types of tumor growth—invasive and compact—as well as their combination. Analytical estimations of tumor growth speed are obtained for compact and invasive tumors. They suggest that antiangiogenic therapy may provide a several times decrease of compact tumor growth speed, but the decrease of growth speed for invasive tumors should be only modest. These estimations are confirmed by numerical simulations, which further allow evaluating the effect of antiangiogenic therapy on tumors with mixed growth type and highlight the non-additive character of the two types of growth.

Keywords: mathematical oncology; spatially distributed modeling; reaction-diffusion-convection equations; computer experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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