Table 2.
Four notions of equilibria utilized in this paper
| Ecological equilibrium | The populations of sensitive and resistant cancer cells are not changing ( and ) given the current resistance level and the current treatment dose m. |
| Eco-evolutionary equilibrium | The cancer cells are at the ecological equilibrium, and the resistance level of the resistant cells is not changing (). |
| (static) Nash equilibrium | The cancer cells are at an eco-evolutionary equilibrium while the treatment dose is at the best response to the current resistance level. |
| Stackelberg equilibrium | Cancer cells are at an eco-evolutionary equilibrium, and the physician maximizes the objective function knowing the evolutionary response of cancer cells. |