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

Publications

MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS FROM A TOTAL OF 169
  1. 410 Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy of Breast Specimens Effectively Harvests Cells for Patient-Derived Organoids Modeling Breast Ductal Carcinoma In Situ.
    Julia Ye, Nadine Goldhammer, Poonam Vohra, Chaelee Park, Cristian Maldonado Rodas, Mark Moasser, Shoko Abe, Michael Alvarado, Cheryl Ewing, Karen Goodwin, Rita Mukhtar, Jasmine Wong, Laura Esserman, Ron Balassanian, Jennifer Rosenbluth| | UCSF Research Profile
  2. A pooled analysis evaluating prognostic significance of Residual Cancer Burden in invasive lobular breast cancer.
    Mukhtar RA, Gottipati S, Yau C, López-Tarruella S, Earl H, Hayward L, Hiller L, Osdoit M, van der Noordaa M, de Croze D, Hamy AS, Laé M, Reyal F, Sonke GS, Steenbruggen TG, van Seijen M, Wesseling J, Martín M, Del Monte-Millán M, Boughey JC, Goetz MP, Hoskin T, Valero V, Edge SB, Abraham JE, Bartlett JMS, Caldas C, Dunn J, Provenzano E, Sammut SJ, Thomas JS, Graham A, Hall P, Mackintosh L, Fan F, Godwin AK, Schwensen K, Sharma P, DeMichele AM, Cole K, Pusztai L, Kim MO, J van 't Veer L, Cameron D, Esserman LJ, Fraser Symmans W| | PubMed
  3. Oncologic Outcomes with De-Escalation of Axillary Surgery After Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer: Results from > 1500 Patients on the I-SPY2 Clinical Trial.
    Boughey JC, Yu H, Switalla K, Velle L, Lopes A, Wallace AM, Lancaster RB, Reyna CR, Tuttle TM, Jaskowiak N, Tchou J, Rao R, Lee MC, Naik AM, Golshan M, Arciero CA, Sauder CAM, Matsen CB, Yau C, Esserman L, Mukhtar RA, I-SPY2 Locoregional Working Group| | PubMed
  4. Tumor Morphology for Prediction of Poor Responses Early in Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer: A Multicenter Retrospective Study.
    Li W, Le NN, Nadkarni R, Onishi N, Wilmes LJ, Gibbs JE, Price ER, Joe BN, Mukhtar RA, Gennatas ED, Kornak J, Magbanua MJM, Van't Veer LJ, LeStage B, Esserman LJ, Hylton NM| | PubMed
  5. Balancing risks of surgical complications and positive margins for patients with invasive lobular carcinoma of the breast and elevated BMI: An institutional cohort study.
    Falade I, Switalla K, Quirarte A, Baxter M, Soroudi D, Rothschild H, Abe SE, Goodwin K, Piper M, Alvarado M, Julian BQ, Ewing C, Wong J, Rose J, Esserman L, Foster R, Mukhtar RA| | PubMed
  6. Regional lymph node changes on breast MRI in patients with early-stage breast cancer receiving neoadjuvant chemo-immunotherapy.
    Jacob S, Christofferson A, Fisch S, Norwood P, Castillo P, Yu H, Hirst G, Soliman H, Nanda R, Mukhtar RA, Ewing C, Majure M, Melisko M, Rugo HS, Esserman L, Price E, Chien AJ| | PubMed
  7. Reply to: "Surgery of the primary tumor in patients with de novo metastatic breast cancer: a nationwide population-based retrospective cohort study in Belgium and the National Cancer Database (NCDB)".
    Kaur M, Rothschild HT, Mukhtar RA| | PubMed
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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