Scientific Reports (Jan 2024)

A comprehensive study for selecting optimal treatment modalities for blood cancer in a Fermatean fuzzy dynamic environment

  • Dilshad Alghazzawi,
  • Aqsa Noor,
  • Hanan Alolaiyan,
  • Hamiden Abd El-Wahed Khalifa,
  • Alhanouf Alburaikan,
  • Songsong Dai,
  • Abdul Razaq

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-51942-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 20

Abstract

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Abstract Cancer is characterized by uncontrolled cell proliferation, leading to cellular damage or death. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), a kind of blood cancer, that affects lymphoid cells and is a challenging malignancy to treat. The Fermatean fuzzy set (FFS) theory is highly effective at capturing imprecision due to its capacity to incorporate extensive problem descriptions that are unclear and periodic. Within the framework of this study, two innovative aggregation operators: The Fermatean fuzzy Dynamic Weighted Averaging (FFDWA) operator and the Fermatean fuzzy Dynamic Weighted Geometric (FFDWG) operator are presented. The important attributes of these operators, providing a comprehensive elucidation of their significant special cases has been discussed in details. Moreover, these operators are utilized in the development of a systematic approach for addressing scenarios involving multiple attribute decision-making (MADM) problems with Fermatean fuzzy (FF) data. A numerical example concerning on finding the optimal treatment approach for ALL using the proposed operators, is provided. At the end, the validity and merits of the new method to illustrate by comparing it with the existing methods.