This week in MathOnco 205

Precision medicine, resilience & aging, immunovirotherapies, experimental evolution, and more

“This week in Mathematical Oncology” — Apr. 14, 2022

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From the editor:

Today’s edition contains publications on topics such as precision medicine, resilience & aging, 4D spheroids, immunovirotherapies, experimental evolution, and more.

Jeffrey West
jeffrey.west@moffitt.org

PS. My apologies to those who received a duplicate version of the newsletter last week: apparently Substack had a glitch.

1. Improving immunovirotherapies: the intersection of mathematical modelling and experiments
   Christine E. Engeland, Johannes P. W. Heidbuechel, Robyn P. Araujo, Adrianne L. Jenner

2. Optimal chemotherapy counteracts cancer adaptive resistance in a cell-based, spatially-extended, evolutionary model
   Matteo Italia, Fabio Dercole, Roberto Lucchetti

3. Spatial mechanistic modeling for prediction of 3D multicellular spheroids behavior upon exposure to high intensity pulsed electric fields
   Annabelle Collin, Hadrien Bruhier, Jelena Kolosnjaj, Muriel Golzio, Marie-Pierre Rols, Clair Poignard

4. Cancer Evolution in Precision Medicine Era
   Dimitris Karagiannis, Theodoros Rampias

5. Resilience Integrates Concepts in Aging Research
   Daniel Promislow, Rozalyn M. Anderson, Marten Scheffer, Bernard Crespi,…,

   David S. Schneider, Sabrina L. Spencer, Dario Riccardo Valenzano, Michael E.

   Hochberg

1. Tumour evolvability metrics predict recurrence beyond 10 years in locally-advanced prostate cancer
   Andrea Sottoriva, Javier Fernandez-Mateos, George Cresswell, Nicholas Trahearn, …, Anna Wilkins, Michael Hubank, Rosalind Eeles, David Dearnaley

2. Experimental evolution in TP53 deficient gastric organoids recapitulates tumorigenesis
   Kasper Karlsson, Moritz J. Przybilla, Hang Xu, Eran Kotler, …, Carlos J. Suarez, Christopher P. Barnes, Calvin J. Kuo, Christina Curtis

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Caption: This artwork captures the notion of in silico clinical trials, which were recently discussed in our published work in the context of combined virotherapy and immunotherapy (viroimmunotherapy). In silico clinical trials, also known as virtual clinical trial, virtual twins, phase i trials, populations of models and random ODEs, are a technique used to create a population of in silico heterogeneous individuals based on real measurements of patient disease growth characteristics and treatment efficacy. By random sampling from distributions based on patient measurements, variations on the treatment protocol (e.g. days between consecutive treatment doses and multiplicity of doses) can be examined to predict population level responses as well as individual responses. From this, optimal “one-size-treats-all” or “personalised” treatments can be determined. This technique has been applied to viroimmunotherapy to reveal patterns in optimal dosage protocols based on tumour aggressivity, see our published work. Created with biorender.com.

Created by: Adrianne Jenner

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