Novel monitoring system for quantitative estimation of efficient medical treatment of diseases based on dielectric properties of blood samples

Abstract

A new system for monitoring the effects of radiation and chemotherapy on patients with cancer and some other severe diseases based on the changes in the dielectric characteristics of their blood samples before and after the treatment using a preorganized system of knowledge on the cancer dynamics, statistical long-term data processing either in the individual or for different cancer types, novel mathematical models and computations on them for interpreting the measurement data is presented. The elaborated system allows accumulating, storing and retrieving data for primary and repeated data processing, the real time decision making on the efficiency/inefficiency of the treatment procedures, and planning future treatment procedures.