Do the tumors (Cancer cells) in Kidney, Liver or Prostate, all have the same dielectric constant, conductivity and Arrhenius parameters? In another word, If I have the parameters of Liver tumor tissue, can I apply it for the Kidney tumor tissue?
Cancers are a large family of diseases that involves abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body. They form a subset of neoplasms. A neoplasm or tumor is a group of cells that have undergone unregulated growth, and will often form a mass or lump, but may be distributed diffusely.
Six characteristics of cancer have been proposed:
self-sufficiency in growth signalling
insensitivity to anti-growth signals
evasion of apoptosis
enabling of a limitless replicative potential
induction and sustainment of angiogenesis
activation of metastasis and invasion of tissue.
The progression from normal cells to cells that can form a discernible mass to outright cancer involves multiple steps known as malignant progression during which the tumor invades other part of the body.
Based on the above definition in principle, all types of cancers have the same general characteristics. However, the treatment, type of surgery, recovering process, life expectancy, etc., could be different depending of the specific type of cancer identified.
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