Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

None Provided.

Criteria
 • Any subject > 18 years of age with a breast lesion which is suspected to be cancer or a known breast cancer lesion (primary or metastatic) who agrees to donate tissue/body fluids. Collection of samples can occur:

 • At the time of breast biopsy or surgery for benign disease

 • At the time of breast biopsy or surgery for suspected breast cancer

 • At the time of biopsy or surgery for histologically proven breast cancer at any stage of disease.

 • From archival materials

 • In a normal volunteer who wishes to donate blood and/or urine to allow for a control population against whom the cancer patient can be compared

 • Subjects have to sign informed consent for study of tumor specimens as part of a research project.

 • Patients have to give permission for their tumor specimens to be obtained from outside institutions for molecular analyses.

 • All subjects participating in this protocol have to be willing to be followed for recurrence, relapse and death from disease.