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. Therapeutic response and outcomes with less common breast cancer subtypes in the I-SPY trial 2011-2022.
    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
  2. I-SPY2 Endocrine Optimization Pilot (EOP): Neoadjuvant amcenestrant +/- abemaciclib +/- letrozole in molecularly selected patients (pts) with HR+ HER2- stage 2/3 breast cancer (BC).
    Amy Jo Chien, Rita A. Mukhtar, Karthik Giridhar, Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, Kevin Kalinsky, Christos Vaklavas, Anthony D. Elias, Mei Wei, Matthew P. Goetz, Laura van 't Veer, Silver Alkhafaji, Hope S. Rugo, Nan Chen, W. Fraser Fraser Symmans, Alexander D. Borowsky, Lamorna Brown Swigart, Natsuko Onishi, Douglas Yee, Nola Hylton, Laura Esserman| | UCSF Research Profile
  3. Invasive lobular breast cancer: Focus on prevention, genetics, diagnosis, and treatment.
    Corso G, Fusco N, Guerini-Rocco E, Leonardi MC, Criscitiello C, Zagami P, Nicolò E, Mazzarol G, La Vecchia C, Pesapane F, Zanzottera C, Tarantino P, Petitto S, Bianchi B, Massari G, Boato A, Sibilio A, Polizzi A, Curigliano G, De Scalzi AM, Lauria F, Bonanni B, Marabelli M, Rotili A, Nicosia L, Albini A, Calvello M, Mukhtar RA, Robson ME, Sacchini V, Rennert G, Galimberti V, Veronesi P, Magnoni F| | PubMed
  4. ASO Author Reflections: The Oncologic Safety of Immediate Oncoplastic Approaches in Invasive Lobular Carcinoma.
    Falade I, Mukhtar RA| | PubMed
  5. Oncologic Safety of Immediate Oncoplastic Surgery Compared with Standard Breast-Conserving Surgery for Patients with Invasive Lobular Carcinoma.
    Falade I, Switalla K, Quirarte A, Baxter M, Soroudi D, Rothschild H, Abe SE, Goodwin K, Piper M, Wong J, Foster R, Mukhtar RA| | PubMed
  6. Abstract PO4-02-03: Distribution of MammaPrint, BluePrint, and Response Predictive Subtypes based on ImPrint and Reprint in ER+/HER2- Invasive Lobular Carcinoma – A FLEX sub study.
    Rita Mukhtar, Christina Yau, Denise Wolf, Adam Brufsky, Hannah Linden, Natasha Hunter, Reshma Mahtani, Abirami Sivapiragasam, Trevor Feinstein, Fengting Yan, Ian Grady, Priscilla McAuliffe, Michaela Tsai, Joyce O'Shaughnessy, Blanche Mavromatis, Sasha Davis, Josien Haan, William Audeh, Lavanya Samraj| | UCSF Research Profile
  7. Abstract PO5-26-07: Surgery for Invasive Lobular Carcinoma: A Patient Experience Survey from the Lobular Breast Cancer Alliance.
    Laurie Hutcheson, Janice Axelrod, Tracy Cushing, Colleen Fitzwater, Rinath Jeselsohn, Gitte Joergensen, Maria Karsten, Miranda Kimm, Megan Kruse, Theresa Langdon, Julia Levine, Mason Mitchell-Daniels, Rita Mukhtar, Barbara Neilsen, Shani Paluch-Shimon, Therese Pross| | UCSF Research Profile
  8. Circulating tumor cells in early lobular versus ductal breast cancer and their associations with prognosis.
    Alkhafaji S, Wolf DM, Magbanua MJM, J van 't Veer L, Park JW, Esserman L, Mukhtar RA| | PubMed
  9. Abstract A059: Heterogeneous cell populations in organoid models derived from breast preinvasive and invasive carcinomas after endocrine therapy.
    Nadine Goldhammer, Shruti Warhadpande, Liana Beld, Cristian K. Maldonado Rodas, Allison Lam, Tam Binh Bui, Shoko Emily Abe, Michael Alvarado, Cheryl Ewing, Karen Goodwin, Rita Mukhtar, Jasmine Wong, Lamorna Brown Swigart, Gillian Hirst, Christopher Schwartz, Laura van't Veer, Laura Esserman, Jo Chien, Jennifer M. Rosenbluth| | UCSF Research Profile
  10. Management of Concurrent Malignant Phyllodes Tumor and Invasive Breast Carcinoma.
    Chen JJ, Zhu I, Patel A, Krings G, Chen YY, Yuen F, Mukhtar RA, Melisko M, Singer L, Park CC, Prionas ND| | PubMed