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@ARTICLE{ElWajeh:917551,
author = {El Wajeh, Mohammad and Jung, Falco and Bongartz, Dominik
and Kappatou, Chrysoula Dimitra and Ghaffari Laleh, Narmin
and Mitsos, Alexander and Kather, Jakob Nikolas},
title = {{C}an the {K}uznetsov {M}odel {R}eplicate and {P}redict
{C}ancer {G}rowth in {H}umans?},
journal = {Bulletin of mathematical biology},
volume = {84},
number = {11},
issn = {0007-4985},
address = {Heidelberg [u.a.]},
publisher = {Springer},
reportid = {FZJ-2023-00753},
pages = {130},
year = {2022},
abstract = {Several mathematical models to predict tumor growth over
time have been developed in the last decades. A central
aspect of such models is the interaction of tumor cells with
immune effector cells. The Kuznetsov model (Kuznetsov et al.
in Bull Math Biol 56(2):295–321, 1994) is the most
prominent of these models and has been used as a basis for
many other related models and theoretical studies. However,
none of these models have been validated with large-scale
real-world data of human patients treated with cancer
immunotherapy. In addition, parameter estimation of these
models remains a major bottleneck on the way to model-based
and data-driven medical treatment. In this study, we
quantitatively fit Kuznetsov’s model to a large dataset of
1472 patients, of which 210 patients have more than six data
points, by estimating the model parameters of each patient
individually. We also conduct a global practical
identifiability analysis for the estimated parameters. We
thus demonstrate that several combinations of parameter
values could lead to accurate data fitting. This opens the
potential for global parameter estimation of the model, in
which the values of all or some parameters are fixed for all
patients. Furthermore, by omitting the last two or three
data points, we show that the model can be extrapolated and
predict future tumor dynamics. This paves the way for a more
clinically relevant application of mathematical tumor
modeling, in which the treatment strategy could be adjusted
in advance according to the model’s future predictions.},
cin = {IEK-10},
ddc = {510},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IEK-10-20170217},
pnm = {899 - ohne Topic (POF4-899)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-899},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {36175705},
UT = {WOS:000861883700001},
doi = {10.1007/s11538-022-01075-7},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/917551},
}