Debra M. Ikeda, M.D.

Clinical Focus

• Breast Cancer
• Breast Cancer - Diagnostic Imaging
• Diagnostic Radiology
• Radiology

Administrative Appointments

• Director, Stanford University Breast Imaging section (1992 - present)

Honors and Awards

• Teacher of the Year, Stanford Radiology (1997)

Professional Education

Postdoctoral Advisees

Stephanie Van de Ven

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

• Radiology

Community & International Work

• International Working Group on Breast MRI, American College of Radiology 

Research Interests

Our clinical and research interests are dedicated to improving the health and lives of women by breast cancer detection and diagnosis using imaging, in both development and testing of new imaging techniques, and transfer of new technology to the clinical arena.

I have been Director of the Stanford Breast Imaging Section since 1992. Our research program has produced publications in imaging with analog mammography, digital mammography, computer-aided detection, breast ultrasound,breast cancer sceening, high-resolution and dynamic contrast-enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) , MRI-guided breast biopsy, MR spectroscopy, fine-needle aspiration cytology, stereotactic large core needle biopsy, sentinel lymph node biopsy, percutaneous tumor ablation including radiofrequency and other devices, outcomes, compliance and imaging of neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Continuing research involves diagnosis with MRI and MRI-guided biopsy, as well as new pulse sequence development. New research involves imaging of Asian women, evaluation of breast density, imaging of accellerated partial breast irradiation, whole breast ultrasound and digital mammograpy with CAD. Future plans include optical imaging with an intent to incorporate molecular imaging techniques developed at the Clark Center into our breast cancer research.

The are many reasons that the Stanford Breast Imaging research program is successful. Stanford provides the optimum location in Silcon Valley for developing, researching and implementing new technology and transferring that technology to the clinical arena in our busy all-digital Breast Cancer Center which opened in 2004. Working with world-class basic science researchers, engineers,chemists and physicists at the Lucas Center for Magnetic Resonance Spectrocopy and Imaging (under the direction of Dr. Gary Glover) and at the Clark Center/ Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (under the the direction of Dr. Sanjiv Gamghir), the Stanford Breast...

Clinical Trials

• Breast Density and the Role of Preoperative Mammography, Ultrasound, Elastography and MRI Recruiting
• Survey of Optical Measures of Breast Tissue in the Clinic Recruiting
• Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation Following Lumpectomy for Breast Cancer No longer recruiting

Publications

• MRI and (1)H MRS of the breast: presence of a choline peak as malignancy marker is related to K21 value of the tumor in patients with invasive ductal carcinoma. Geraghty PR, van den Bosch MA, Spielman DM, Hunjan S, Birdwell RL, Fong KJ, Stables LA, Zakhour M, Herfkens RJ, Ikeda DM. Breast J. 2008 Nov-Dec; 14 (6): 574-80
• Mammographic screening in women at increased risk of breast cancer after treatment of Hodgkin's disease. Kwong A, Hancock SL, Bloom JR, Pal S, Birdwell RL, Mariscal C, Ikeda DM. Breast J. 2008 Jan-Feb; 14 (1): 39-48
• Estrogen receptor-negative invasive breast cancer: imaging features of tumors with and without human epidermal growth factor receptor type 2 overexpression. Wang Y, Ikeda DM, Narasimhan B, Longacre TA, Bleicher RJ, Pal S, Jackman RJ, Jeffrey SS. Radiology. 2008; 246 (2): 367-75
• MRI-guided needle localization of suspicious breast lesions: results of a freehand technique. van den Bosch MA, Daniel BL, Pal S, Nowels KW, Birdwell RL, Jeffrey SS, Ikeda DM. Eur Radiol. 2006; 16 (8): 1811-7
• Cost-effectiveness of screening BRCA1/2 mutation carriers with breast magnetic resonance imaging. Plevritis SK, Kurian AW, Sigal BM, Daniel BL, Ikeda DM, Stockdale FE, Garber AM. JAMA. 2006; 295 (20): 2374-84