News & Events

In September of 2024, the Lobular Breast Cancer Research Program’s Director, Dr. Rita Mukhtar, and research fellow, Astrid Quirarte, traveled to Belgium to attend the 2024 International ILC Symposium. Patient advocates, clinicians, and scientists attended the symposium to learn and discuss the latest advancements...

Medical student, Kayla Switalla, was recently honored with The American Society of Breast Surgeons’ Outstanding Scientific Presentation Award at their 25th Annual Meeting for her research on "The Role of Clipping the Lymph Node in Clinically Node Positive Patients Treated with Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Breast...

Israel Falade, a mentee of Dr. Mukhtar, a Lobular Breast Cancer Research Fellow, recently won the Long-Term Dean’s Prize in Research and Scholarship for his work on 'Oncologic Safety of Immediate Oncoplastic Surgery Compared to Standard Breast Conserving Surgery for Patients with Invasive Lobular Carcinoma.'...

The UCSF Lobular Breast Cancer Research Group is excited to announce that we have received an additional $50,000 dollars of grant funding through the UCSF Research Allocation Program (RAP) for our clinical trial B-BRITE (Bariatric Breast Results in Testing Experience). B-BRITE is a prospective pilot study...

Successful Breast Conservation After Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Lobular Breast Cancer: The Role of Menopausal Status in Response to Treatment While neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) has been shown to increase rates of breast conservation surgery (BCS) for breast cancer, response rates in invasive lobular carcinoma...

In December, three UCSF Lobular Breast Cancer Research Program Fellows, medical students Elle Cleland, Mandeep Kaur and Harriet Rothschild, presented at the 2022 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. Quantifying estrogen and progesterone receptor status in early-stage invasive lobular carcinoma of the breast...

By Elizabeth Fernandez First Lady, Dr. Jill Biden visits UCSF to speak with patients, researchers, and doctors as part of President Biden's Cancer Moonshot program. From left to right: Alan Ashworth, MD, Paola Betancur, MD, Monica Bertagnolli, MD, First Lady Jill Biden, Ed.D, Kami Pullakhandam. Photo by Noah...

The UCSF Department of Surgery is pleased to announce that third year UCSF medical student Mary Kathryn (Katy) Abel, A.B. was awarded the inaugural Thomas K. Hunt Memorial fellowship from the Division of General Surgery for her research project: “Optimizing outcomes in invasive lobular carcinoma of the breast...

We are pleased to announce the appointment of three new Associate Residency Program Directors for our general surgery residency program: Rita Mukhtar, MD as Associate Residency Program Director for Curriculum; Wen Shen, MD, MA as Associate Residency Program Director for Resident Professional Development; and Lan...

The Department of Surgery celebrated the many achievements of our UCSF Surgery trainees and educators at Surgery Grand Rounds on June 10, 2020, recognizing the tireless hard work and extraordinary talent displayed each and every day by these recipients. In addition, there was a tribute to the late Chief Resident...

UCSF surgeon-scientist Rita Mukhtar, M.D., Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division of General Surgery, has been awarded two grants to study lobular breast cancer. This work is also being crowd-funded by one of Dr. Mukhtar's patients through a novel mechanism offered by the UCSF Foundation, "Together at UCSF...

Surgeons, from left, Lucy Kornblith, Rita Mukhtar and Carter Lebares pose for a photograph in the lobby of the UCSF Clinical Science Building in San Francisco, Calif., on Wednesday, April 19, 2017. ( Courtesy Anda Chu/Bay Area News Group) The April 3, 2017 cover of the New Yorker depicting four women in blue...