Advances in Difference Equations, vol.397, no.2019, pp.1-25, 2019 (SCI-Expanded)
In this paper, we propose a system of differential equations with piecewise constant
arguments to describe the growth of GBM under chemotherapeutic treatment and
the interaction among the glial cells, the cancer cells, and the chemotherapeutic
agents. In this work, the cancer cells are considered as two populations: the sensitive
cancer cells and the resistant cancer cells. The sensitive tumor cells produce a
population that is known as the resistant cell population, where this population has
more resistance to the drug treatment than the sensitive tumor cell population. We
analyze at first the local and global stability of the positive equilibrium point by
considering the Schur–Cohn criteria and constructing a suitable Lyapunov function,
respectively. Moreover, we use the center manifold theorem and bifurcation theory to
show that the model undergoes Neimark–Sacker bifurcation. To investigate the case
for the extinction of the tumor population, we consider the Allee threshold at time t.
Simulation results support the theoretical study.