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

Program Affiliations

Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center

Publications

MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS FROM A TOTAL OF 169
  1. Breast Conservation Surgery and Mastectomy Have Similar Locoregional Recurrence After Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy: Results From 1462 Patients on the Prospective, Randomized I-SPY2 Trial.
    Mukhtar RA, Chau H, Woriax H, Piltin M, Ahrendt G, Tchou J, Yu H, Ding Q, Dugan CL, Sheade J, Crown A, Carr M, Wong J, Son J, Yang R, Chan T, Terando A, Alvarado M, Ewing C, Tonneson J, Tamirisa N, Gould R, Singh P, Godellas C, Larson K, Chiba A, Rao R, Sauder C, Postlewait L, Lee MC, Symmans WF, Esserman LJ, Boughey JC, ISPY-2 Locoregional Working Group| | PubMed
  2. Prognostic Significance of Residual Ductal Carcinoma In Situ After Complete Response of Invasive Breast Cancer to Neoadjuvant Therapy-Reply.
    Mukhtar RA, Yau C, Esserman LJ| | PubMed
  3. Time to Surgery in Breast Cancer-Is Faster Always Better?
    Mukhtar RA, Esserman LJ| | PubMed
  4. 407 Moving from observational studies to a clinical trial: the impact of obesity and surgical weight loss on breast imaging, tissue, and cancer screening experience: the B-BRITE study.
    Elle N Clelland, Judy Gonzalez-Vargas, Sarah G Palilla, Suneil K Koliwad, Heather I Greenwood, Christopher J Schwartz, Chris C. Benz, Diana L Alba, Rita A Mukhtar| | UCSF Research Profile
  5. 53 The development of a multi-institutional prospective registry for patients with metastatic invasive lobular carcinoma: identifying new markers of disease progression.
    Harriet T Rothschild, A Jo Chien, Rachel C Jankowitz, Mark JM Magbanua, Jason A Mouabbi, Rebecca A Shatsky, Julia Levine, Rita A Mukhtar| | UCSF Research Profile
  6. HER-2 low status in early-stage invasive lobular carcinoma of the breast: associated factors and outcomes in an institutional series.
    Rothschild HT, Clelland E, Patterson A, Molina-Vega J, Kaur M, Symmans WF, Schwartz CJ, Chien AJ, Mukhtar RA| | PubMed
  7. Abstract HER2-14: HER2-14 HER-2 low status in early stage invasive lobular carcinoma of the breast: associated factors and outcomes in an institutional series.
    Harriet T. Rothschild, Elle Clelland, Anne Patterson, Julissa Molina-Vega, Mandeep Kaur, Mary Kathryn Abel, W. Fraser Symmans, Christopher J. Schwartz, Rita Mukhtar| | UCSF Research Profile
  8. Abstract P2-03-16: Quantifying estrogen and progesterone receptor status in early-stage invasive lobular carcinoma of the breast: associated factors and outcomes in an institutional series.
    Elle Clelland, Harriet T. Rothschild, Anne Patterson, Julissa Molina-Vega, Mandeep Kaur, Mary Kathryn Abel, W. Fraser Symmans, Jo Chien, Christopher J. Schwartz, Rita Mukhtar| | UCSF Research Profile
  9. Abstract P3-09-01: Characterization of residual disease after neoadjuvant selective estrogen receptor degrader (SERD) therapy using tumor organoids in the I-SPY Endocrine Optimization Protocol (EOP).
    Jennifer Rosenbluth, Christopher J. Schwartz, Tam Binh Bui, Shruti Warhadpande, Pravin Phadatare, Sigal Eini, Michael Bruck, Julissa Molina-Vega, Kami Pullakhandam, Nicole Schindler, Lamorna A. Brown Swigart, Christina Yau, Gillian Hirst, Rita Mukhtar, Karthik V. Giridhar, Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, Kevin Kalinsky, Cheryl A. Ewing, Jasmine M. Wong, Michael D. Alvarado, Laura Van’t Veer, Laura J. Esserman, Jo Chien| | UCSF Research Profile
  10. Abstract P6-05-10: An international survey on invasive lobular breast cancer (ILC) reveals gaps in knowledge and top priority research areas.
    Steffi Oesterreich, Leigh Pate, ADRIAN V. LEE, Rachel C. Jankowitz, Patrick Derksen, Rita Mukhtar, Otto Metzger, Matthew J. Sikora, Christopher Li, Christos Sotiriou, Gary Ulaner, Jorge Reis-Filho, Nancy E Davidson, Karen Van Baelen, Laurie Hutcheson, Siobhan Freeney, Flora Migyanka, Claire Turner, Todd Bear, Christine Desmedt| | UCSF Research Profile