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  • Oncology
  • Medical Informatics
  • Operations Research

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  • Current multi-modality cancer treatment relies heavily on empirical approaches and clinical intuition.
  • Balancing tumor damage and normal tissue side effects is crucial for maximizing clinical outcomes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a novel, rigorous framework for optimizing multi-modality cancer management.
  • To formulate cancer treatment as a finite-horizon Markov decision process.

Main Methods:

  • Defined patient state by tumor progression and normal tissue side effects.
  • Categorized treatments into high-risk/high-reward (restricted), low-risk/low-reward (repeatable), and surveillance (no treatment).
  • Utilized numerical simulations with concave reward functions to analyze optimal policies.

Main Results:

  • The Markov decision process approach provides structural insights into optimal treatment strategies.
  • Demonstrated the potential for a rigorous, data-driven method to enhance cancer management.

Conclusions:

  • Optimal multi-modality cancer management can be formulated using a Markov decision process.
  • This approach offers a systematic way to personalize treatment by considering tumor state and side effects.