Nonlinear dynamics and stability of a delayed leukemia model with real-world applications
摘要
Leukemia is a complex hematological disorder whose progression involves interactions between healthy, infected, and immune cell populations. Time delays naturally arise in leukemic dynamics due to diagnostic lag, immune activation, and treatment response. Motivated by these biological considerations, a delayed model of leukemia is formulated and analyzed using a system of delayed differential equations. In the model, the population is divided into three compartments, namely, susceptible, infected, and recovered cells, with a nonlinear incidence term that includes natural and artificial delay effects. The positivity, boundedness, and uniqueness of the solutions are established and explicit expressions are derived for the leukemia-free and leukemia-existing equilibria. The basic reproduction number