Clinical Research Directory

Inclusion Criteria: 1. Age ≥18 years at the time of signing study consent. 2. ECOG ≤2. 3. Patient with T1-4 breast cancer for groups A and B; patient with T1/T2 breast cancer for group C (based on physical exam, not radiological measurements). 4. Patient is scheduled to undergo a lumpectomy. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Prior treatment for the tumor of interest (including chemotherapy, immunotherapy, radiotherapy). 2. Patient planning to or undergoing intraoperative radiotherapy. 3. Diabetes (types I and II). 4. Hypercortisolism. 5. Collagen vascular disease. 6. Patient requiring systemic corticosteroids at physiologic doses exceeding 10 mg/day of prednisone or its equivalent. 7. Patient receiving daily chemotherapy for rheumatological conditions. 8. Pregnancy (a urine pregnancy test must be obtained for non-sterile women of childbearing potential prior to surgery).