Early detection of a tumor makes it more probable that the patient will, finally, recover. The current approach in diagnosis focuses on microbiological, immunological, and pathological aspects rather than on the “metamaterial geometry” of the diseases. The determination of the effective properties of the biological tissue samples and treating them as disordered media has become possible with the development of effective medium approximation techniques. The obtained effective permittivity values are affected by various factors, like the amount of different cell types in the sample. The identification of the cancer affected areas based on their effective medium properties was performed.
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