University of California San Francisco

Biography

Dr. Rita Mukhtar specializes in breast surgery and general surgery for urgent conditions. For her patients with breast cancer, she offers expertise in total skin-sparing mastectomies, breast conservation, wire localization surgery (used to show the location of tissue requiring biopsy) and sentinel lymph node biopsy (used to see if cancer has spread).

Dr. Mukhtar's research program focuses on invasive lobular carcinoma, the second most common type of breast cancer. This work is funded by the American Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute. She teaches medical students and residents, and serves as an Associate Program Director for the UCSF General Surgery Residency.

Education

Institution Degree Dept or School End Date
University of California Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training 2018
University of California, San Francisco M.D. Medicine 2006

Board Certifications

American Board of Surgery, General Surgery

Clinical Expertise

Breast Surgery

Lumpectomy

Seed and wire localization surgery

Nipple sparing/total skin sparing mastectomy

Sentinel lymph node biopsy

Axillary dissection

Emergency General Surgery

Clinical Trials

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Program Affiliations

Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center

In the News

Publications

MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS FROM A TOTAL OF 172
  1. Variation in surgical treatment by body mass index in patients with invasive lobular carcinoma of the breast.
    Falade IO, Switalla KM, Baxter ME, Quirarte A, Record H, Rothschild HT, Clelland EN, Mukhtar RA| | PubMed
  2. Therapeutic response and outcomes with uncommon breast cancer subtypes in the I-SPY trial 2010-2022.
    Alexandra Thomas, Denise M. Wolf, Ronald Balassanian, Yunn-Yi Chen, Julia Ye, Poonam Vohra, Evin H. Gulbahce, Alexander D. Borowsky, Lamorna Brown Swigart, Gillian L. Hirst, Sara Venters, Rita Nanda, Rebecca Arielle Shatsky, Ralph D'Agostino, Rita A. Mukhtar, Sarah Hatcher, Christina Yau, Angela DeMichele, Laura van 't Veer, Laura Esserman| | UCSF Research Profile
  3. Change in Biomarker Profile After Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy is Prognostic and Common Among Patients with HER2+ Breast Cancer.
    Tchou J, Gottipati S, Goldbach M, Baxter M, Venters S, Balassanian R, Vohra P, Gonzalves D, Ahmad Z, Nayak A, Boughey JC, Mukhtar RA, Chen YY| | PubMed
  4. Magnetic resonance imaging insights from active surveillance of women with ductal carcinoma in situ.
    Greenwood HI, Maldonado Rodas CK, Freimanis RI, Glencer AC, Miller PN, Mukhtar RA, Brabham C, Yau C, Rosenbluth JM, Hirst GL, Campbell MJ, Borowsky A, Hylton N, Esserman LJ, Basu A| | PubMed
  5. ASO Author Reflections: Evolving Paradigms in Axillary Management for Breast Cancer: Insights from the ISPY-2 Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Trial.
    Switalla KM, Boughey JC, Mukhtar RA| | PubMed
  6. ASO Author Reflections: Detecting Local Recurrence After Primary Treatment for Invasive Lobular Carcinoma of the Breast.
    Clelland EN, Mukhtar RA| | PubMed
  7. International survey on invasive lobular breast cancer identifies priority research questions.
    Oesterreich S, Pate L, Lee AV, Chen F, Jankowitz RC, Mukhtar R, Metzger O, Sikora MJ, Li CI, Sotiriou C, Shah OS, Koorman T, Ulaner G, Reis-Filho JS, Davidson NM, Van Baelen K, Hutcheson L, Freeney S, Migyanka F, Turner C, Derksen P, Bear T, Desmedt C| | PubMed
  8. Clipping the Positive Lymph Node in Patients with Clinically Node Positive Breast Cancer Treated with Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy: Impact on Axillary Surgery in the ISPY-2 Clinical Trial.
    Switalla KM, Boughey JC, Dimitroff K, Yau C, Ladores V, Yu H, Tchou J, Golshan M, Ahrendt G, Postlewait LM, Piltin M, Reyna CR, Matsen CB, Tuttle TM, Wallace AM, Arciero CA, Lee MC, Tseng J, Son J, Rao R, Sauder C, Naik A, Howard-McNatt M, Lancaster R, Norwood P, Esserman LJ, Mukhtar RA| | PubMed
  9. Internal Mammary Lymphadenopathy Does Not Impact Oncologic Outcomes in Patients Treated with Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy: Results from the I-SPY2 Clinical Trial.
    Piltin MA, Norwood P, Ladores V, Mukhtar RA, Sauder CA, Golshan M, Tchou J, Rao R, Lee MC, Son J, Reyna C, Hewitt K, Kuerer H, Ahrendt G, Greenwalt I, Tseng J, Postlewait L, Howard-McNatt M, Jaskowiak N, Esserman LJ, Boughey JC, , ISPY2 Locoregional Working Group| | PubMed
  10. Surveillance Strategies After Primary Treatment for Patients with Invasive Lobular Carcinoma of the Breast: Method of Local Recurrence Detection After Breast-Conserving Surgery.
    Clelland EN, Quirarte A, Rothschild HT, Kaur M, Mujir F, Record H, Wong JM, Mukhtar RA| | PubMed