Abstract
Despite ongoing efforts in cancer research, a fully effective treatment for
glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is still unknown. Since adoptive cell transfer
immunotherapy is one of the potential cure candidates, efforts have been made
to assess its effectiveness using mathematical modeling. In this paper, we
consider a model of GBM immunotherapy proposed by Abernathy and Burke (2016),
which also takes into account the dynamics of cancer stem cells, i.e., the type
of cancer cells that are hypothesized to be largely responsible for cancer
recurrence. We modify the initial ODE system by applying simplifying
assumptions and analyze the existence and stability of steady states of the
obtained simplified model depending on the treatment levels.
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