Oncolytic Virus Therapy

Common treatments of cancer, those being radiation, chemotherapy, and radiation, are not certain to kill all tumour cells within the body and they can have serious long-term side effects. Oncolytic virus treatment is targeting these tumour cells with a virus that will kill off the cancerous cells and ignore the healthy cells. This type of treatment can be mathematically analysed to understand how the growth of these viruses interacting with the cancer cells will play out. Using differential equations and linear algebra, a general matrix has been achieved to use as the base for the understanding of this project.