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Modeling antitumor activity in xenograft tumor treatment
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Modeling antitumor activity in xenograft tumor treatment

Hua Liang
Biometrical journal, v 47(3), pp 358-368
Jun 2005
PMID: 16053259

Abstract

Animals Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols - administration & dosage Brain Neoplasms - diagnosis Brain Neoplasms - drug therapy Camptothecin - administration & dosage Camptothecin - analogs & derivatives Computer Simulation Dacarbazine - administration & dosage Dacarbazine - analogs & derivatives Dose-Response Relationship, Drug Drug Therapy, Computer-Assisted - methods Mice Models, Biological Models, Statistical Treatment Outcome Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays - methods
To analyze responses of solid tumors to treatment with antitumor therapy, we applied nonparametric mixed-effects models to investigate tumor volumes measured over a fixed. The population and individual response functions were approximated by penalized splines. Linear mixed-effects modeling was applied in the implementation of the estimation. We applied the approach to an analysis of a real xenograft study of a new antitumor agent, temozolomide, combined with irinotecan. The model fitted the data very well. We conducted a sensitivity analysis to determine the effect of informative dropout. We also propose an intuitive approach to a comparison of the antitumor effects of two different treatments. Biological interpretations and clinical implications are discussed.

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