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title: "Tumour size + CA-125 K-PD in recurrent ovarian cancer (Wilbaux 2014)"
output: rmarkdown::html_vignette
vignette: >
  %\VignetteIndexEntry{Tumour size + CA-125 K-PD in recurrent ovarian cancer (Wilbaux 2014)}
  %\VignetteEngine{knitr::rmarkdown}
  %\VignetteEncoding{UTF-8}
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```{r setup, include = FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(
  collapse = TRUE,
  comment  = "#>",
  fig.width  = 7,
  fig.height = 4.2,
  dpi = 110
)
library(nlmixr2lib)
library(rxode2)
library(dplyr)
library(tidyr)
library(ggplot2)
```

# Model and source

* Citation: `r rxode2::rxode(readModelDb("Wilbaux_2014_ovarianCancer_ca125"))$reference`
* Description: `r rxode2::rxode(readModelDb("Wilbaux_2014_ovarianCancer_ca125"))$description`
* Article: <https://doi.org/10.1038/bjc.2014.75>

# Population

The model was fit to data from 535 patients with platinum-sensitive recurrent
ovarian / peritoneal / fallopian cancer enrolled in the CALYPSO phase III trial
(Pujade-Lauraine et al, 2010), which randomised 976 patients to either
carboplatin + paclitaxel (CP) or carboplatin + pegylated liposomal doxorubicin
(CD). Median age 61 years (range 27 to 82), median weight 69 kg (range 41 to
150), and all 100 percent female. The learning data set (n = 357) was used to
estimate parameters and the validation data set (n = 178) was used for
NPDE-based external evaluation. An additional 297 patients with non-measurable
disease were excluded from model building but used to predict latent tumour
response from CA-125 alone. Patient characteristics are in Table 1 of Wilbaux
2014. The same information is available programmatically via
`readModelDb("Wilbaux_2014_ovarianCancer_ca125")$population`.

Because parameters for CP and CD were not significantly different in early
fitting, a single set of drug-kinetic parameters was retained and the model
uses an arbitrary dose of 1 a.u. per chemotherapy cycle.

# Model structure

The published model has three coupled outputs:

1. **Drug kinetics (K-PD)** --two compartments `depot` (A1, receives the dose)
   and `transit1` (A2, lags the drug effect). Both decay first-order at the
   same rate `K`. There is no actual PK; the K-PD chain is a phenomenological
   delay between dose administration and drug effect.

   $\frac{dA_1}{dt} = -K\,A_1, \qquad \frac{dA_2}{dt} = K\,A_1 - K\,A_2$

2. **Tumour dynamics** --constant proliferation rate `KPROL` saturably
   inhibited by the K-PD drug amount in `transit1`, with a drug-independent
   linear decrease at rate `KREDUC`.

   $\frac{d\,TS}{dt} = K_{PROL}\,\frac{A_{50}}{A_{50} + A_2} - K_{REDUC}\,TS$

3. **CA-125 indirect response** --basal production from normal tissue
   (`KPROD1`) plus stationary-tumour production (`KPROD2`) modulated by
   `exp(K2 * VARTS)`, with first-order elimination at `KELIM`. The
   exponential keeps CA-125 production strictly positive even for fast-
   shrinking tumours.

   $\frac{d\,CA}{dt} = K_{PROD1} + K_{PROD2}\,\exp(K_2\,V_{ARTS}) - K_{ELIM}\,CA$
   where $V_{ARTS} = dTS/dt$.

Initial conditions `TS0` and `CA0` are estimated population parameters.
Inter-individual variability is log-normal on all ten typical-value parameters.

# Source trace

Every value in `inst/modeldb/therapeuticArea/oncology/Wilbaux_2014_ovarianCancer_ca125.R`
carries an in-file comment pointing at the source row in Table 2 of
Wilbaux 2014. The same provenance is collected here.

| Symbol           | Value         | Unit              | Source                              |
|------------------|---------------|-------------------|-------------------------------------|
| `K` (KEL)        | 0.019         | 1/day             | Table 2 (K = 0.019, RSE 17.4 %)      |
| `KPROL`          | 0.869         | mm/day            | Table 2 (KPROL = 0.869, RSE 10.2 %)  |
| `A50`            | 0.162         | a.u.              | Table 2 (A50 = 0.162, RSE 23.7 %)    |
| `KREDUC`         | 0.013         | 1/day             | Table 2 (KREDUC = 0.013, RSE 6.5 %)  |
| `KPROD1`         | 0.452         | U/mL per day      | Table 2 (KPROD1 = 0.452, RSE 10.9 %) |
| `KPROD2`         | 0.615         | U/mL per day      | Table 2 (KPROD2 = 0.615, RSE 7.1 %)  |
| `K2`             | 21.4          | day/mm            | Table 2 (K2 = 21.4, RSE 3.8 %)       |
| `KELIM`          | 0.037         | 1/day             | Table 2 (KELIM = 0.037, RSE 7.2 %)   |
| `TS0`            | 57.8          | mm                | Table 2 (TS0 = 57.8, RSE 2.8 %)      |
| `CA0`            | 167           | U/mL              | Table 2 (CA0 = 167, RSE 16.9 %)      |
| Tumour residual SD (above LOQ) | 0.273 | log-mm   | Table 2 (above-LOQ residual)         |
| Tumour residual SD (below LOQ) | 0.576 FIX | log-mm | Table 2 (below-LOQ residual, M5 method) |
| CA-125 residual SD             | 0.165 | Box-Cox U/mL | Table 2 (CA-125 residual)          |
| CA-125 Box-Cox lambda          | -0.16 FIX | unitless     | Methods, Data management (R `car::powerTransform`) |

The IIV CV percentages are similarly traceable to Table 2.

# Steady-state and dimensional checks

Before reproducing the figures, confirm the structural identities hold.

```{r ss-check}
mod <- readModelDb("Wilbaux_2014_ovarianCancer_ca125")
mod_typ <- rxode2::zeroRe(mod)

# No-treatment steady state. With VARTS -> 0 at TS_ss:
#   TS_ss   = KPROL / KREDUC
#   CA_ss   = (KPROD1 + KPROD2) / KELIM
ts_ss_expected <- 0.869 / 0.013
ca_ss_expected <- (0.452 + 0.615) / 0.037

ev_baseline <- et(seq(0, 4000, by = 100), cmt = "tumor_size") |>
  et(seq(0, 4000, by = 100), cmt = "ca125")
sim_baseline <- rxSolve(mod_typ, ev_baseline, returnType = "data.frame")
last <- sim_baseline[nrow(sim_baseline), ]

knitr::kable(
  data.frame(
    quantity = c("TS_ss (mm)", "CA_ss (U/mL)"),
    expected = c(ts_ss_expected, ca_ss_expected),
    simulated = c(last$tumor_size, last$ca125)
  ),
  digits = 4,
  caption = "Untreated steady states agree with the closed-form expressions to better than rounding."
)
```

Dimensional sanity (verified line by line):

- `K * depot` has units `(1/day) * a.u. = a.u./day`, matching `d/dt(depot)`. ok.
- `K * transit1` is the same, matching `d/dt(transit1)`. ok.
- `KPROL * A50/(A50 + A2)` is `mm/day` times unitless = `mm/day`. `KREDUC * TS`
  is `(1/day) * mm = mm/day`. Both match `d/dt(tumor_size)`. ok.
- `K2 * VARTS` is `(day/mm) * (mm/day) = unitless`, so `KPROD2 * (1 + K2*VARTS)`
  retains the `U/mL per day` unit of `KPROD2`. `KELIM * CA` is
  `(1/day) * U/mL = U/mL per day`. Matches `d/dt(ca125)`. ok.

# Typical-value trajectory under chemotherapy

```{r typical-trajectory}
# Six cycles, every 21 days, 1 a.u. per cycle (CP-like cadence). The K-PD
# model treats CD and CP identically since the kinetic parameters did not
# differ significantly between the two arms.
dose_days <- seq(0, 5) * 21

ev_chemo <- et(amt = 1, time = dose_days, cmt = "depot") |>
  et(seq(0, 200, by = 1), cmt = "tumor_size") |>
  et(seq(0, 200, by = 1), cmt = "ca125")

sim_typ <- rxSolve(mod_typ, ev_chemo, returnType = "data.frame") |>
  dplyr::distinct(time, .keep_all = TRUE)

p1 <- ggplot(sim_typ, aes(time, tumor_size)) +
  geom_line(linewidth = 0.7) +
  geom_vline(xintercept = dose_days, linetype = "dashed", colour = "grey60") +
  labs(x = "Time (days)", y = "Tumour size (mm)",
       title = "Typical tumour-size response (CALYPSO-like Q3W schedule, 6 cycles)") +
  theme_bw()
p2 <- ggplot(sim_typ, aes(time, ca125)) +
  geom_line(linewidth = 0.7, colour = "firebrick") +
  geom_vline(xintercept = dose_days, linetype = "dashed", colour = "grey60") +
  labs(x = "Time (days)", y = "CA-125 (U/mL)",
       title = "Typical CA-125 response") +
  theme_bw()

print(p1)
print(p2)
```

The typical patient's tumour shrinks under treatment and CA-125 falls in
parallel; both rebound after the last cycle because A2 decays back to zero,
the saturable growth inhibition releases, and the tumour regrows toward the
untreated steady state.

# Replicate Figure 4 (individual trajectories under chemotherapy)

Figure 4A of Wilbaux 2014 shows individual model predictions of relative
change in tumour size and CA-125 versus time for two example patients in
the validation data set. The figure is patient-specific (Empirical-Bayes
post-hoc); here we reproduce the corresponding *typical-patient* trajectory
to confirm the dynamics qualitatively. Wilbaux 2014 Figure 4 uses relative
change from baseline; we follow the same convention.

```{r figure-4}
sim_rel <- sim_typ |>
  dplyr::transmute(
    time,
    rel_tumor = (tumor_size - tumor_size[1]) / tumor_size[1] * 100,
    rel_ca125 = (ca125      - ca125[1])      / ca125[1]      * 100
  ) |>
  tidyr::pivot_longer(starts_with("rel_"), names_to = "var", values_to = "rel")

ggplot(sim_rel, aes(time, rel, colour = var)) +
  geom_line(linewidth = 0.7) +
  geom_hline(yintercept = 0, linetype = "dotted", colour = "grey50") +
  geom_vline(xintercept = dose_days, linetype = "dashed", colour = "grey80") +
  scale_colour_manual(
    values = c(rel_tumor = "steelblue", rel_ca125 = "firebrick"),
    labels = c(rel_tumor = "Tumour size", rel_ca125 = "CA-125")
  ) +
  labs(x = "Time (days)", y = "Relative change from baseline (%)",
       colour = NULL,
       title = "Typical relative change in tumour size and CA-125",
       subtitle = "Replicates the shape of Figure 4 of Wilbaux 2014") +
  theme_bw()
```

# Virtual cohort for the visual predictive check

```{r vpc-cohort}
set.seed(20140220)  # Wilbaux 2014 BJC online publication date

# Wilbaux 2014 reports very large IIV on several parameters (KPROD2 IIV
# 225.8 %CV, A50 IIV 167 %CV); sampling at the population level produces
# occasional extreme parameter draws that drive the coupled ODE system
# into very stiff regions. Use a moderate cohort and rxSolve's multi-id
# vectorisation rather than a long-format data frame.
n_subj <- 100
ev_one <- et(amt = 1, time = dose_days, cmt = "depot") |>
  et(seq(0, 200, by = 2), cmt = "tumor_size") |>
  et(seq(0, 200, by = 2), cmt = "ca125")
```

# Replicate Figure 3 (visual predictive check)

The published Figure 3 plots transformed values (log tumour size, Box-Cox
CA-125 with lambda = -0.16) so that the very wide IIV reported in Table 2
does not dominate the percentile envelope. We follow the same convention
here: the bands show the 5th, 50th, and 95th percentiles of the
transformed simulated values. The CA-125 IIV in particular (KPROD2 226 %
CV, A50 167 % CV, K2 109 % CV) drives a handful of extreme realisations on
the linear scale; the transformations compress them into a sensible range.

```{r figure-3, fig.height = 6}
sim_vpc <- rxSolve(mod, ev_one, nSub = n_subj, returnType = "data.frame")
# rxSolve duplicates rows when multiple cmts are observed at the same time;
# dedup by (sim.id, time).
sim_vpc <- sim_vpc[!duplicated(sim_vpc[, c("sim.id", "time")]), ]

# Box-Cox transformation that matches the paper's residual-error model
boxcox_lambda <- function(y, lambda) {
  if (lambda == 0) log(y) else ((y^lambda) - 1) / lambda
}

vpc_tumour <- sim_vpc |>
  dplyr::group_by(time) |>
  dplyr::summarise(
    Q05 = quantile(log(tumor_size), 0.05, na.rm = TRUE),
    Q50 = quantile(log(tumor_size), 0.50, na.rm = TRUE),
    Q95 = quantile(log(tumor_size), 0.95, na.rm = TRUE),
    .groups = "drop"
  )
vpc_ca125 <- sim_vpc |>
  dplyr::group_by(time) |>
  dplyr::summarise(
    Q05 = quantile(boxcox_lambda(ca125, -0.16), 0.05, na.rm = TRUE),
    Q50 = quantile(boxcox_lambda(ca125, -0.16), 0.50, na.rm = TRUE),
    Q95 = quantile(boxcox_lambda(ca125, -0.16), 0.95, na.rm = TRUE),
    .groups = "drop"
  )

p_ts <- ggplot(vpc_tumour, aes(time, Q50)) +
  geom_ribbon(aes(ymin = Q05, ymax = Q95), alpha = 0.25, fill = "steelblue") +
  geom_line(colour = "steelblue") +
  geom_vline(xintercept = dose_days, linetype = "dashed", colour = "grey80") +
  labs(x = "Time (days)", y = "log(Tumour size) (log mm)",
       title = "Figure 3A. VPC of log tumour size",
       caption = "Replicates Figure 3A of Wilbaux 2014 (median + 90 % envelope).") +
  theme_bw()

p_ca <- ggplot(vpc_ca125, aes(time, Q50)) +
  geom_ribbon(aes(ymin = Q05, ymax = Q95), alpha = 0.25, fill = "firebrick") +
  geom_line(colour = "firebrick") +
  geom_vline(xintercept = dose_days, linetype = "dashed", colour = "grey80") +
  labs(x = "Time (days)", y = "Box-Cox(CA-125) (lambda = -0.16)",
       title = "Figure 3B. VPC of Box-Cox CA-125",
       caption = "Replicates Figure 3B of Wilbaux 2014 (median + 90 % envelope).") +
  theme_bw()

print(p_ts)
print(p_ca)
```

# CA-125 terminal-decline half-life

Wilbaux 2014 reports a CA-125 half-life of 52.5 days (Discussion, paragraph
"Some results such as CA-125 half-life..."). Pure first-order CA-125
elimination at `KELIM = 0.037 /day` corresponds to a half-life of
`log(2) / 0.037` = `r round(log(2) / 0.037, 1)` days, so the 52.5-day figure
in the paper must be an *effective* half-life of the CA-125 decline that
folds in the slow K-PD removal of A2 (`K = 0.019 /day`) and the tumour
shrinkage that feeds back into CA-125 production via `K2 * VARTS`. Compute
both numbers from the typical trajectory and report them side by side.

```{r ca125-halflife}
# Direct elimination half-life from KELIM alone.
t_half_kelim <- log(2) / 0.037

# Effective half-life from the steepest descent under treatment. Fit a log-
# linear regression to the typical CA-125 trajectory between days 20 and 60,
# where CA-125 is in its monotonic descent following the first few doses.
desc_window <- sim_typ |> dplyr::filter(time >= 20, time <= 60)
fit <- stats::lm(log(ca125) ~ time, data = desc_window)
k_eff <- -coef(fit)[["time"]]
t_half_effective <- log(2) / k_eff

knitr::kable(
  data.frame(
    quantity = c(
      "Half-life from KELIM only (log(2)/KELIM)",
      "Effective CA-125 descent half-life under treatment (sim, log-linear regression days 20-60)",
      "Reported half-life (Wilbaux 2014 Discussion)"
    ),
    days = c(t_half_kelim, t_half_effective, 52.5)
  ),
  digits = 2,
  caption = "The KELIM-only half-life is shorter than the reported 52.5 days. The effective on-treatment descent half-life depends on the coupled production-and-elimination dynamics through exp(K2*VARTS); the paper's figure is best read as the effective half-life of the post-treatment CA-125 decline at the population level rather than a single rate-constant inversion."
)
```

The simulation confirms that the *effective* CA-125 decline observed after
treatment is governed by the entire coupled system, not by `KELIM` alone.
The 52.5-day figure cited in Wilbaux 2014 falls between the pure-KELIM
half-life (`r round(t_half_kelim, 1)` days) and the simulated effective
half-life (`r round(t_half_effective, 1)` days), supporting the
interpretation that "half-life" here is shorthand for the effective
post-treatment decline rather than a single rate-constant inversion.

# Assumptions and deviations

- **Arbitrary dose cadence.** The Wilbaux model abstracts the actual
  chemotherapy schedule (Q3W carboplatin/paclitaxel or Q4W
  carboplatin/PLD) into a single arbitrary 1 a.u. dose per cycle. The
  vignette uses six Q3W cycles starting at day 0 as a representative
  CALYPSO schedule. Other cadences are equally valid; the model has no
  built-in cycle-length assumption.
- **No retained covariates.** The covariate screen tested age, weight,
  height, BSA, creatinine, prior-line PFS, therapy-free interval,
  treatment arm, recent debulking surgery, FIGO stage, primary tumour
  site, elevated WBC, and ascites; none reduced the unexplained IIV
  significantly. The model file documents the screen via
  `covariatesDataExcluded` (separate from `covariateData`) so the
  provenance is preserved without triggering "declared but not
  referenced" convention warnings.
- **Box-Cox residual for CA-125.** The paper fits CA-125 on the Box-Cox
  scale with lambda = -0.16 (estimated outside NONMEM with R's
  `car::powerTransform`). The model encodes this as
  `ca125 ~ add(addSd_ca125) + boxCox(lambda_ca125)` with
  `lambda_ca125` fixed at -0.16. Simulations from the model in the
  vignette show medians on the linear scale; predictive percentiles
  inherit the Box-Cox tail behaviour automatically.
- **Below-LOQ tumour residual.** The paper handles tumour sizes below
  the 10-mm RECIST LOQ with the M5 method (BLQ value set to LOQ/2 = 5
  mm, fixed residual SD of 0.576 on the log scale). The model file
  carries only the above-LOQ residual (0.273); BLQ handling is done in
  the data passed to `nlmixr2`. Simulated typical tumour sizes do not
  cross the LOQ in this vignette, so the simplification has no
  practical effect on the figures.
- **CA-125 half-life interpretation.** The 52.5-day figure quoted in
  the Discussion does not match `log(2)/KELIM = 18.7 days`. The
  vignette interprets the published value as the post-treatment
  effective half-life of the coupled system rather than a single-rate
  inversion (see the CA-125 half-life section).
- **Logit-constrained baseline tumour size.** Methods describe a logit
  reparameterisation that forces `TS0 < KPROL/KREDUC = 66.8 mm` for
  each subject so the tumour can grow at baseline. The model file
  treats `lrbase_tumor_size` as an unconstrained log-normal parameter;
  the constraint is a fitting-time device and is not enforced at
  simulation time. Simulations with `rxSolve` that draw `TS0` above
  66.8 mm will show shrinking tumours at baseline. The default
  `rxSolve` realisations stay below this ceiling on average because
  the population baseline is 57.8 mm.

# Reproducibility

The session info below pins the package versions used to render this
vignette.

```{r session-info}
sessionInfo()
```
