ABSTRACT
In recent years, applications of IR and Raman spectroscopy have increased a great deal. It seems that still the majority of studies being carried out using these methods are concentrated on areas related to chemistry and polymers, such as different types of coatings on membranes, analysing the process of progress in chemical reaction, etc. [1-30]. However, some other research groups have concentrated on applications of spectroscopy in other fields, such as astronomy [31], archaeology [32,33] and forensic sciences [34,35]. A newly emerged field, the application of these spectroscopic methods on biological studies, particularly on clinical studies related to malignancy and cancer detection, has attracted different research groups all over the world. These methods have been reported on a number of biological tissues including, bone, skin, colon, lung, breast, heart, cornea, liver, prostate, gastric, larynx, oral, cervix, and endometrium. This chapter reviews the studies that have been reported in the literature.
