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 180
  1. Breast cancer diagnosis, management, and outcomes in transgender, nonbinary, and gender-diverse individuals: A multicenter cohort.
    Chandler Scott Cortina, Ruta Brazauskas, Meghan Rose Flanagan, Kathie-Ann P. Joseph, Rita Mukhtar, Olga Kantor, Kristen M. Rezak, Laura Horst Rosenberger, Sumanas Jordan, Rachel Jimenez, Katherine A. Kopkash, Tasha Hughes, Meeghan A. Lautner, Emily L. Siegel, Zahraa Alhilli, Michael Ryan Cassidy, Rachel L. McCaffrey, Marie Catherine Lee, Anna Weiss, Melinda Stolley| | UCSF Research Profile
  2. Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) in patients with stage 2/3 HR+HER2-negative breast cancer (BC) treated with neoadjuvant endocrine therapy (NET) in the I-SPY2 endocrine optimization pilot (EOP) trial.
    Silver Alkhafaji, Mark Jesus M Magbanua, Laura van t Veer, Karthik Giridhar, Matthew P. Goetz, Rita Mukhtar, Christos Vaklavas, Anthony D. Elias, Mei Wei, Gillian L. Hirst, Hope S. Rugo, Laura Ann Huppert, W. Fraser Fraser Symmans, Alexander D. Borowsky, Lamorna Brown Swigart, Natsuko Onishi, Douglas Yee, Nola Hylton, Laura Esserman, Jo Chien| | UCSF Research Profile
  3. I-SPY2 endocrine optimization pilot (EOP): Neoadjuvant lasofoxifene (Laso) in molecularly selected patients with hormone receptor positive (HR+)/HER2 negative (HER2-) stage 2/3 breast cancer (BC).
    Mei Wei, Anthony D. Elias, Karthik Giridhar, Matthew P. Goetz, Rita Mukhtar, Christos Vaklavas, Laura van t Veer, Silver Alkhafaji, Gillian L. Hirst, Hope S. Rugo, Nan Chen, W. Fraser Fraser Symmans, Alexander D. Borowsky, Lamorna Brown Swigart, Natsuko Onishi, Douglas Yee, Nola Hylton, Laura Esserman, Jo Chien| | UCSF Research Profile
  4. Patient experiences of diagnosis and treatment of invasive lobular carcinoma: A qualitative study from a prospective registry.
    Astrid Quirarte, Anna Lannhi Vertido, Sophia Zamudio-Haas, Jo Chien, Rita Mukhtar| | UCSF Research Profile
  5. Reframing hormone-positive DCIS management: Effects of adjuvant therapies and surgical extent on any invasive recurrence.
    Thomas O'Keefe, Christina Yau, Sophie Lin, Nicolas Prionas, Gillian L. Hirst, Rita Mukhtar, Anne M. Wallace, Michael Alvarado, Laura Esserman| | UCSF Research Profile
  6. Serum estradiol (sE2) levels in premenopausal (PreM) women receiving neoadjuvant ovarian function suppression (OFS) with the oral SERD amcenestrant, alone, or in combination with letrozole or abemaciclib in the I-SPY2 Endocrine Optimization Pilot (EOP).
    Jo Chien, Peter Norwood, Rita Mukhtar, Karthik Giridhar, Matthew P. Goetz, Christos Vaklavas, Anthony D. Elias, Mei Wei, Hope S. Rugo, Nan Chen, Alexander D. Borowsky, Lamorna Brown Swigart, Rebecca Arielle Shatsky, Laura Ann Huppert, Michelle E. Melisko, Laura Esserman| | UCSF Research Profile
  7. Predicting nodal burden after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) with circulating tumor (ct)DNA for surgical planning: Results from the I-SPY2 trial.
    Rita Mukhtar, Katrina Dimitroff, Christina Yau, Laura van t Veer, Jo Chien, Gillian L. Hirst, Lamorna Brown Swigart, Angela DeMichele, Douglas Yee, Hope S. Rugo, Rebecca Arielle Shatsky, Claudine Isaacs, Kamran A. Ahmed, Julia C. Tchou, Henry Mark Kuerer, Chantal Reyna, Candice A. Sauder, Laura Esserman, Judy Caroline Boughey, Mark Jesus M. Magbanua| | UCSF Research Profile
  8. ASO Visual Abstract: Positive Margin Rates After Breast-Conserving Surgery by Histologic Subtype: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Evaluating the Impact of Oncoplastic Surgery.
    Switalla KM, Falade IO, Quirarte A, Baxter M, Kaur M, Sakr RA, Corso G, Mukhtar RA| | PubMed
  9. A Multi-Institutional Analysis of Contralateral Axillary Metastases: Advanced Local-Regional Disease Divergent from Stage IV Breast Cancer.
    Flanagan MR, van den Bruele AMB, Downs-Canner SM, Thomas SM, Gallagher KK, Jakub JW, Tevis SEA, Verdial FC, Zhang JQ, Elmore LC, Mukhtar RA, Brennan M, Lillie M, Gibson TC, Verosky A, Plichta JK, Rosenberger LH| | PubMed
  10. Positive Margin Rates After Breast-Conserving Surgery by Histologic Subtype: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Evaluating the Impact of Oncoplastic Surgery.
    Switalla KM, Falade IO, Quirarte A, Baxter M, Kaur M, Sakr RA, Corso G, Mukhtar RA| | PubMed