The scheduling of angiogenic inhibitors minimizing tumor volume

The efficiency of piecewise constant protocols with a small number of switchings is investigated for a mathematical model of tumor anti-angiogenesis formulated originally by Hahnfeldt et al. in [8]. By comparing with the theoretically optimal solution derived earlier [12] it will be seen that for the problem of minimizing the primary cancer volume with a given amount of angiogenic inhibitors to be administered constant protocols already provide very good suboptimal strategies.