Modern microwave thermometry for breast cancer

Abstract

The temperature of a malignant tumour is a universal indicator of the growth rate of the tumor. Tumor temperature can be used as a prediction of the benefit of individual therapies and in monitoring the efficacy of breast cancer treatment. Provide systematic analysis of the data available in the current literature on the role of microwave thermometry in diagnosis of breast pathology, in assessing the effect of neoadjuvant therapy for breast cancer treatment, and in screening programs. Various aspects of the use of microwave thermometry in onco-mammology are described: the diagnostic value of the method, the possibilities in differential diagnosis of dyshormonal hyperplasias, benign and malignant tumors, the prognostic role of microwave, the possibility of using the method in assessing the effect of preoperative chemotherapy in locally advanced breast cancer. It is shown, that microwave thermometry is a highly informative method of early diagnosis of various breast pathologies and can be widely used in screening programs to form risk groups for subsequent diagnostics using traditional methods (ultrasound, x-ray mammography, breast MRI, morphology). Microwave thermometry helps to assess the effect of ongoing neoadjuvant therapy of the primary non-operative forms of breast cancer in order to correct the personalized treatment.