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Markov Decision Processes and Dynamic Treatment Regimes have grownincreasingly popular in the treatment of diseases, including cancer. However,cancer treatment often impacts quality of life drastically, and people oftenfail to take treatments that are sustainable, affordable and can be adhered to.In this paper, we emphasize the usage of ambient factors like profession,radioactive exposure, food habits on the treatment choice, keeping in mind thatthe aim is not just to relieve the patient of his disease, but rather tomaximize his overall physical, social and mental well being. We delineate ageneral framework which can directly incorporate a net benefit function from aphysician as well as patient's utility, and can incorporate the varyingprobabilities of exposure and survival of patients of varying medical profiles.We also show by simulations that the optimal choice of actions often issensitive to extraneous factors, like the financial status of a person (as aproxy for the affordability of treatment), and that these actions should bewelcome keeping in mind the overall quality of life.

Finding Optimal Cancer Treatment using Markov Decision Process to Improve Overall Health and Quality of Life