The disclosure describes an apparatus for testing the integrity of mammary tissues comprising one or more transmission antennas configured to strike a mammary tissue with a main electromagnetic field in the microwave frequency band, one or more reception antennas configured to pick up a corresponding reflected electromagnetic field, a processing unit comprising a first operating module configured to determine a main parameter representing an electrical discontinuity of the mammary tissue, and a second operating module configured to generate a signal representing a non-integrity of the mammary tissue.