Britt-Marie Ljung, MD

Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, BS, 1971
Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, MD, 1975
Koping Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, Intern, 1975-77, Rotating
Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, Resident, 1977-78, Oncology
Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, Resident, 1978-80, Cytology
University Of California, Los Angeles, School Of Medicine, Resident, 1980-83, Pathology

• 1981-83
  Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California
• 1983-89
  Assistant Professor in Residence, Department of Pathology, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine, San Francisco, California
• 1989-95
  Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology, UCSF
• 1994-99
  University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine Director Division Cytopathology
• 1994-present
  University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine Director,Cytopathology Fellowship Program
• 1995-present
  University Of California, San Francisco Full Professor

• 1987
  1987 Year Book of Cancer
• 1987
  Academic Senate Committee on Equal Opportunity Faculty Development Affirmative Action Award
• 1994
  Outstanding Lecture, UCSF Medical Students
• 1995
  Honorary Visiting Professor of Cytology, University of Iowa
• 1997
  John K. Frost Lectureship, 38th Annual Postgraduate Institute Johns Hopkins University
• 1999
  Elected to Gerson Lehrman Group's Council of Healthcare Advisors
• 2000
  Best Abstract Presentation by Senior Faculty Member, UCSF
• 2001
  Nominated for "An Outstanding Lecture" UCSF Medical Students
• 2001
  Outstanding Lecture Series, UCSF Medical Students
• 2002
  Selected Top Doctor in Pathology, www.guidetotopdoctors.org.
• 2004
  Bay Area Top Doctors ( 8 mentions)
• 2009
  America’s Top Doctors for Cancer, Castle Connolly American Registry
• 2010
  Yolanda Oertel Interventional Cytopathologist of the Year, Papanicolaou Society of Cytopathology
• 2010
  College of American Pathologists Excellence in Education Award

• Meng MV, Cha I, Ljung BM, Turek PJ. Testicular fine-needle aspiration in infertile men: correlation of cytologic pattern with biopsy histology. 25: 71-9, 1/2001.
• Meng MV, Black LD, Cha I, Ljung BM, Pera RA, Turek PJ. Impaired spermatogenesis in men with congenital absence of the vas deferens. 16: 529-33, 3/2001.
• Etzell JE, Devries S, Chew K, Florendo C, Molinaro A, Ljung BM, Waldman FM. Loss of chromosome 16q in lobular carcinoma in situ. 32: 292-6, 3/2001.
• Dooley WC, Veronesi U, Elledge R, O'Shaughnessy J, Ljung B, Arias R. Detection of premalignant and malignant breast cells by ductal lavage. 97: S2, 4/2001.
• Dooley WC, Ljung BM, Veronesi U, Cazzaniga M, Elledge RM, O'Shaughnessy JA, Kuerer HM, Hung DT, Khan SA, Phillips RF, Ganz PA, Euhus DM, Esserman LJ, Haffty BG, King BL, Kelley MC, Anderson MM, Schmit PJ, Clark RR, Kass FC, Anderson BO, Troyan SL, Arias RD, Quiring JN, Love SM, Page DL, King EB. Ductal lavage for detection of cellular atypia in women at high risk for breast cancer. 93: 1624-32, 11/7/2001.
• Evron E, Dooley WC, Umbricht CB, Rosenthal D, Sacchi N, Gabrielson E, Soito AB, Hung DT, Ljung B, Davidson NE, Sukumar S. Detection of breast cancer cells in ductal lavage fluid by methylation-specific PCR. 357: 1335-6, 4/28/2001.
• Zmuda JM, Cauley JA, Ljung BM, Bauer DC, Cummings SR, Kuller LH,. Bone mass and breast cancer risk in older women: differences by stage at diagnosis. 93: 930-6, 6/20/2001.
• Ljung B-M, Drejet a, Chiampi N, Jeffrey J, Goodson III WH, Chew KL, Moore II DH, Miller TR. Diagnostic accuracy of fine needle aspiration biopsy is determined by physician training is sampling technique 93: 263-268, 8/2001.
• Gong G, DeVries S, Chew KL, Cha I, Ljung BM, Waldman FM. Genetic changes in paired atypical and usual ductal hyperplasia of the breast by comparative genomic hybridization. 7: 2410-4, 8/2001.
• Dooley WC, Ljung B-M, Veronesi U, Cazzaniga M, Elledge RM, O'Shaughnessy JA, Kuerer HM, Hung DT, Khan SA, Phillips RF, Ganz, PA, Euhus DM, Esserman LJ, Haffty BG, King BL, Kelley MC, Anderson BO, Troyan SM, Arias RD, Quiring JN, Love, SM, Page DL, King EB. Ductal lavage for detection of cellular atypia in women at high risk for breast cancer 93: 1624-1632, 1/2001.
• O'Shaughnessy JA, Ljung BM, Dooley WC, Chang J, Kuerer HM, Hung DT, Grant MD, Khan SA, Phillips RF, Ducall K, Euhus DM, King BL, Anderson BO, Troyan SL, Kim J, Veronesi U, Cazzaniga M. Ductal lavage and the clinical management of women at high risk for breast carcinoma. A commentary 94: 292-298, 1/2002.
• Morrow M, Vogel V, Ljung BM, O'Shaughnessy JA. Evaluation and management of the woman with an abnormal ductal lavage. 194: 648-56, 5/2002.
• Cauley JA, Zmuda JM, Klug T, Ljung BM, Bauer DC, Cummings SR, Kuller LH. Estrogen metabolites and the risk of breast cancer in older women, 14: 740-744, 11/2002.
• Cummings SR, Lee J, Lui L-Y, Stone K, Ljung BM, Tice J, Cauley JA. Sex hormones and risk factors for predicting risk of estrogen receptor positive and negative breast cancer in older postmenopausal women. 1/2003.
• Kerlikowske, K, Smith-Bindman R, Ljung BM, Grady, D. Evaluation of Abnormal Mammography Results and Palpable Breast Abnormalities. 139: 274-285, 8/2003.
• Kerlikowske K, Molinaro A, Cha I, Ljung BM, Ernster VL, Stewart K, Chew K, Moore DH, Waldman F. Characteristics associated with recurrence among women with ductal carcinoma in situ treated by lumpectomy 95: 1692-1702, 11/2003.
• Brogi E, Robson M, Panageas KS, Casadio C, Ljung BM, Montgomery L. Ductal lavage in patients undergoing mastectomy for mammary carcinoma: a correlative study. 98: 2170-6, 11/15/2003.
• Meng ZH, Ben Y, Li Z, Chew K, Ljung BM, Lagios MD, Dairkee SH. Aberrations of breast cancer susceptibility genes occur early in sporadic breast tumors and in acquisition of breast epithelial immortalization. 41: 214-22, 11/2004.
• Brogi, E, Miller MJ, Casadio C, Ljung BM, Mongomery Leslie. Ductal Lavage and Fine Needle Aspiration of Breast Carcinoma, A comparative study 1/2004.
• Ljung BM, Chew KL, Moore DH, King EB. Cytology of ductal lavage fluid of the breast. 30: 143-50, 3/2004.
• Hwang SE, Devries S, Chew KL, Moore D, Kerlikowske K, Thor A, Ljung BM, Waldman FM. Patterns of Chromosomal Alterations in Breast Ductal Carcinoma In situ 10: 5160-7, 8/2004.
• Chin K, de Solorzano CO, Knowles D, Jones A, Chou W, Rodriguez EG, Kuo WL, Ljung BM, Chew K, Myambo K, Miranda M, Krig S, Garbe J, Stampfer M, Yaswen P, Gray JW, Lockett SJ. In situ analyses of genome instability in breast cancer. 36: 984-8, 9/2004.
• Khan SA, Wiley EL, Rodriguez N, Baird C, Ramakrishman R, Nayar R, Bryk M, Bethke KB, Staradub VL, Wolfman J, Rademaker A, Ljung BM and Morrow M. Ductal lavage findings in women with known breast cancer undergoing mastectomy. 96: 1510-7, 10/2004.
• Parmar H, Melov S, Samper E, Ljung BM, Cunha GR, Benz CC. Hyperplasia, reduced E-cadherin expression, and developmental arrest in mammary glands oxidatively stressed by loss of mitochondrial superoxide dismutase. 14: 256-63, 8/2005.
• Brogi E, Miller MJ, Casadio C, Ljung BM, Montgomery L. Paired ductal lavage and fine-needle aspiration specimens from patients with breast carcinoma. 33: 370-5, Dec/2005.
• Carlson RW, Anderson BO, Burstein HJ, Cox CE, Edge SB, Farrar WB, Goldstein LJ, Gradishar WJ, Hayes DF, Hudis C, Jahanzeb M, Ljung BM, Marks LB, McCormick B, Nabell LM, Pierce LJ, Reed EC, Silver SM, Smith ML, Somlo G, Theriault RL, Ward JH, Winer EP, Wolff AC,. Breast cancer. 3: 238-89, May/2005.
• Cummings SR, Lee JS, Lui LY, Stone K, Ljung BM, Cauleys JA. Sex hormones, risk factors, and risk of estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer in older women: a long-term prospective study. 14: 1047-51, May/2005.
• Haqq C, Nosrati M, Sudilovsky D, Crothers J, Khodabakhsh D, Pulliam BL, Federman S, Miller JR, Allen RE, Singer MI, Leong SP, Ljung BM, Sagebiel RW, Kashani-Sabet M. The gene expression signatures of melanoma progression. 102: 6092-7, Apr/26/2005.
• Carlson RW, Moench SJ, Hammond ME, Perez EA, Burstein HJ, Allred DC, Vogel CL, Goldstein LJ, Somlo G, Gradishar WJ, Hudis CA, Jahanzeb M, Stark A, Wolff AC, Press MF, Winer EP, Paik S, Ljung BM. HER2 Testing in Breast Cancer: NCCN Task Force Report and Recommendations. 4 Suppl 3: S1-S22, Jul/2006.
• Rajpal S, Warren RS, Alexander M, Yeh BM, Grenert JP, Hintzen S, Ljung BM, Bergsland EK. Pancreatoblastoma in an adult: case report and review of the literature. 10: 829-36, Jun/2006.
• Fridlyand J, Snijders AM, Ylstra B, Li H, Olshen A, Segraves R, Dairkee S, Tokuyasu T, Ljung BM, Jain AN, McLennan J, Ziegler J, Chin K, Devries S, Feiler H, Gray JW, Waldman F, Pinkel D, Albertson DG. Breast tumor copy number aberration phenotypes and genomic instability. 6: 96, 2006.