Most cited article - PubMed ID 37241020
Forecasting Individual Patients' Best Time for Surgery in Colon-Rectal Cancer by Tumor Regression during and after Neoadjuvant Radiochemotherapy
Objectives: The quantitative analysis of tumor progression-monitored during and immediately after therapeutic interventions-can yield valuable insights into both long-term disease dynamics and treatment efficacy. Methods: We used a computational approach designed to support clinical decision-making, with a focus on personalized patient care, based on modeling therapy effects using effective parameters of the Gompertz law. Results: The method is applied to data from in vivo models undergoing neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy, as well as conventional and FLASH radiation treatments. Conclusions: This user-friendly, phenomenological model captures distinct phases of treatment response and identifies a critical dose threshold distinguishing complete response from partial response or tumor regrowth. These findings lay the groundwork for real-time quantitative monitoring of disease progression during therapy and contribute to a more tailored and predictive clinical strategy.
- Keywords
- monitoring treatment response, predictive personalized tumor progression, support clinical decision-making, tumor growth,
- Publication type
- Journal Article MeSH