Generalized electro-biothermo-fluidic and dynamicalmodeling of cancer growth: state-feedback controlled cesium therapy approach

Murad Al-Shibli

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DOI: 10.4236/jbise.2011.49073                

Abstract

This paper develops a generalized dynamical model to describe the interactive dynamics between normal cells, tumor cells, immune cells, drug therapy, electromagnetic field of the human cells, extracellular heat and fluid transfer, and intercellular fractional mass of Oxygen, cell acidity and Pancreatin enzyme. The overall dynamics stability, controllability and observability have been investigated. Moreover, Cesium therapy is considered as a control input to the 11-dimensional dynamics using state-feedback controlled system and pole placement technique. This approach is found to be effective in driving the desired rate of tumor cell kill and converging the system to healthy equilibrium state. Furthermore, the ranges of the system dynamics parameters which lead to instability and growth of tumor cells have been identified. Finally, simulation results are demonstrated to verify the effectiveness of the applied approach which can be implemented successfully to cancer patients.

Keywords

Cancer, Tumor Growth, Tumor Dynamics and Modeling, Immune System, Cesium Therapy, State-Feedback Control, Pole Placement

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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