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Predictive models have been developed to simulate cancer cell populations under treatment with cytotoxic drugs, with both direct-acting and cell cycle specific drugs being considered. Models of cell growth kinetics have been combined with simple pharmacokinetic models to complete the cell-drug interaction system. The models depend on knowing the distribution of generation time in the cell population, the cell-drug interaction, and the local concentration of the drug at the effective site. All of the quantities can be obtained, in principle, from separate experiments and combined to form a model describing several aspects of the cell-drug response system.
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Himmelstein, K.J., Bischoff, K.B. Mathematical representations of cancer chemotherapy effects. Journal of Pharmacokinetics and Biopharmaceutics 1, 51–68 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01060027
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