Delineation and detection of breast cancer using novel label-free fluorescence.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateAll procedures carried out in the research involving human subjects were in compliance with the institution's ethical standards and/or national research committee, as well as the Helsinki Declaration of 1964, and its subsequent revisions, or equivalent ethical principles. The Faculty of Medicine at Ain Shams University in Egypt authorized and approved all experimental and investigational studies and ensured that they adhered to the Declaration of Helsinki's Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects (P.T.REC/009/003156 No.). No experimental research was conducted on anyone who took part in this study, and all patients read and signed two copies of a permission form before data collection began. The need for informed consent was waived by the Ethics Committee—Faculty of Medicine—Ain Shams University, because of the retrospective nature of study and patients’ information was protected. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests."

"Funding Open access funding provided by The Science, Technology & Innovation Funding Authority (STDF) in cooperation with The Egyptian Knowledge Bank (EKB). No funds, grants, or other support was received. The authors stated and declare that no funders for this study."