TY - GEN
T1 - Predicting long-term vaccine efficacy against metastases using agents
AU - Pennisi, Marzio
AU - Motta, Dario
AU - Cincotti, Alessandro
AU - Pappalardo, Francesco
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - To move faster from preclinical studies (experiments in mice) towards clinical phase I trials (experiments in advanced cancer patients), the chance to predict the outcome of longer experiments represents a key step. We use the MetastaSim model to predict the long-term effects of the Triplex vaccine against metastases. To this end we simulate follow-ups of two and three of three months (equivalent approximately to 5.83 and 8.75 years in humans) to compare the long-term efficacy of the best protocol used "in vivo" against the one found by the MetastaSim model. We also check the efficacy of these two protocols by delaying the time of the first administration, in order to catch up the maximum time delay between the appearing of metastases and the administration of the vaccine needed to guarantee reasonable treatment efficacy.
AB - To move faster from preclinical studies (experiments in mice) towards clinical phase I trials (experiments in advanced cancer patients), the chance to predict the outcome of longer experiments represents a key step. We use the MetastaSim model to predict the long-term effects of the Triplex vaccine against metastases. To this end we simulate follow-ups of two and three of three months (equivalent approximately to 5.83 and 8.75 years in humans) to compare the long-term efficacy of the best protocol used "in vivo" against the one found by the MetastaSim model. We also check the efficacy of these two protocols by delaying the time of the first administration, in order to catch up the maximum time delay between the appearing of metastases and the administration of the vaccine needed to guarantee reasonable treatment efficacy.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84855643304&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-24553-4_15
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-24553-4_15
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84855643304
SN - 9783642245527
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 97
EP - 106
BT - Bio-Inspired Computing and Applications - 7th International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2011, Revised Selected Papers
T2 - 7th International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2011
Y2 - 11 August 2011 through 14 August 2011
ER -