Method for determining disease treatment duration

A method for treating a patient with a disease, comprising the steps of:

• receiving an untreated series of measurements that indicate temporal progression of a physical property related to a disease while the disease is untreated in a victim outside a population of patients to be treated;
• receiving a treated series of measurements that indicate temporal progression of the physical property of the disease while a particular treatment is administered, wherein the treated series includes an initial treatment measurement substantively when the treatment is started;
• determining a series of effectiveness values based on the untreated series and the treated series, wherein each effectiveness value indicates a relative value between an untreated rate of change of the physical property while the disease is untreated at one time and a treated rate of change of the physical property while the disease is treated with the particular treatment at a corresponding time;
• determining an elapsed time from start of treatment to an earliest time when an effectiveness value reaches an extreme compared to adjacent effectiveness values;
• determining a duration for administering the treatment to a particular patient with the disease based on the elapsed time;
• and
• administering the treatment to the particular patient for a time that does not exceed the duration during a temporal cycle of treatment and hiatus.

A method for treating a patient with a disease, comprising the step of:

• administering, during a temporal cycle of treatment and hiatus, a treatment to a particular patient for a time that does not exceed a computed duration,
• wherein the computed duration is determined according to the steps of
• receiving an untreated series of measurements that indicate temporal progression of a physical property related to a disease while the disease is untreated in a victim outside a population of patients to be treated;
• receiving a treated series of measurements that indicate temporal progression of the physical property of the disease while a particular treatment is administered, wherein the treated series includes an initial treatment measurement substantively when the treatment is started;
• determining a series of effectiveness values based on the untreated series and the treated series, wherein each effectiveness value indicates a relative value between an untreated rate of change of the physical property while the disease is untreated at one time and a treated rate of change of the physical property while the disease is treated with the particular treatment at a corresponding time;
• determining an elapsed time from start of treatment to an earliest time when an effectiveness value reaches an extreme compared to adjacent effectiveness values;
• and
• determining the duration for administering the treatment to a particular patient with the disease based on the elapsed time.

A computer-readable medium carrying one or more series of instructions for determining a duration for administering a treatment within one cycle to a patient suffering from a disease, wherein execution of the one or more series of instructions by one or more processors causes the one or more processors to perform the steps of:

• receiving an untreated series of measurements that indicate temporal progression of a physical property related to a disease while the disease is untreated in a victim outside a population of patients to be treated;
• receiving a treated series of measurements that indicate temporal progression of the physical property of the disease while a particular treatment is administered, wherein the second series includes an initial treatment measurement substantively when the treatment is started;
• determining a series of effectiveness values based on the untreated series and the treated series, wherein each effectiveness value indicates a relative value between an untreated rate of change of the physical property at one time and a treated rate of-change of the physical property at a corresponding time;
• determining an elapsed time from start of treatment to an earliest time when an effectiveness value reaches an extreme compared to adjacent effectiveness values;
• and
• determining a duration for administering the treatment to a patient with the disease based on the elapsed time.