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Cancer Detection Based on Electrical Properties of Tissues

Abstract:

Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Therefore, early detection is essential since it can prevent its spread and increase the chances of treating and curing it. The present work focuses on analyzing cancer detection techniques based on the dielectric properties of tissues. Examples of these techniques are dielectric characterization, bioimpedance spectroscopy, microwave spectroscopy, and microwave tomography, which can replace other methods that can cause complications in patients, such as X-ray images, tomography, and biopsies. For this purpose, a descriptive method was used by searching for scientific articles published in a time interval between 2016 and 2021. This search was made in different databases such as Google Scholar, Scopus, and PubMed. A Boolean algorithm was defined, with which a total of 32 different combinations were obtained—finally reaching a selection of 30 articles. All these articles were studied thoroughly and separated into categories to analyze them properly.