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MATHEMATICAL MODELLING OF NATURAL PHENOMENA
Volume 12, Issue 5, Pages 99-119Publisher
EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1051/mmnp/201712507
Keywords
BCG immunotherapy; Stochastic Stability; Stochastic maximum principle; Bladder cancer; Optimal control
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Urologic studies have reported in several papers that the optimal dose of Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) immunotherapy in superficial bladder cancer, is still a subject of research. Our main goal from this paper, is to find treatment regimens that minimize the total number of tumors in the presence of a diffusion process. For this, we devise a stochastic model in the form of a nonlinear system of four stochastic differential equations (SDEs) that describe tumor-immune dynamics after BCG instillations. Therefore, we study the existence and the stability results. Then, we introduce a control function in the mathematical model, to represent the dose of BCG intravesical therapy, and we seek its optimal values through the application of a stochastic version of Pontryagin's maximum principle. Finally, we present some numerical simulations using iterative stochastic Runge-Kutta progressive-regressive schemes which we propose for solving the optimality system of the obtained stochastic two-point boundary value problem.
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