A survey on antennas used for early detection of breast cancer

A survey on various types of antennas used for the early detection of Breast cancer is presented here. With the advancement of technology, affinity towards the study of flexible antennas both in academia and industry has been greatly increased in the recent era. Light weight, low manufacturing cost, ease of fabrication and cheap availability of the substrate made flexible antenna compelling for new generation consumer electronics. Nowadays, breast cancer is a major health issue that is seen predominantly in women and affects one in every seven women. X-ray mammography is a standard technique that is followed for detecting early stage breast cancer which has several limitations such as exposure to hazardous rays. Microwave thermography technique is proposed as an alternate way for detecting and locating the breast tumour. Several researches have been done in reference to detection of breast cancer and results are published. Few of the research findings are presented here and compared with one another with their analytical results.