Immune Effects in Patients Treated With Whole Breast Irradiation

Exclusion Criteria

• •Male patients
• •Patients who are pregnant or nursing.
• •Patient has a history or current evidence of any condition, therapy, or laboratory abnormality that might confound the results of the study, interfere with the patient's participation for the duration of the study or is not in the best interest of the patient to participate, in the opinion of the treating investigator.
• •Breast cancer that involves the skin or the chest wall.
• •History of ipsilateral breast cancer treated with radiation therapy.
• •Multicentric breast cancer in the ipsilateral breast as diagnosed by clinical exam, mammogram, ultrasound, or MRI
• •Patients known to have a BRCA gene mutation. Genetic testing is not required.
• •Patient with clinically positive nodal disease.
• •Patient with proven nodal disease by either FNA, core biopsy or sentinel node biopsy.