Dr. Peter Leif Bergsagel M.D.
Hematologist-Oncologist | Hematology & Oncology
13400 E Shea Blvd Scottsdale AZ, 85259About
Dr. Peter Bergsagel is a hematologist oncologist practicing in Scottsdale, AZ. Dr. Bergsagel specializes in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of blood diseases such as anemia, hemophilia, sickle-cell disease, leukemia and lymphoma. Hematologist Oncologists are also trained in the study of cancer and its attack on other organs.
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Medical Oncology
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Activated fibroblast growth factor receptor 3 is an oncogene that contributes to tumor progression in multiple myeloma.
- Cyclin D3 at 6p21 is dysregulated by recurrent chromosomal translocations to immunoglobulin loci in multiple myeloma.
- WWOX, the FRA16D gene, behaves as a suppressor of tumor growth.
- Frequent inactivation of the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor p18 by homozygous deletion in multiple myeloma cell lines: ectopic p18 expression inhibits growth and induces apoptosis.
- Multiple myeloma: evolving genetic events and host interactions.
- Differential regulation of IL-12 and IL-10 gene expression in macrophages by the basic leucine zipper transcription factor c-Maf fibrosarcoma.
- Chemotherapy of multiple myeloma: melphalan--40 years old and still going strong.
- Prognostic factors in multiple myeloma: it's in the genes.
- Inhibition of fibroblast growth factor receptor 3 induces differentiation and apoptosis in t(4;14) myeloma.
- Bone lesions in molecular subtypes of multiple myeloma.
- Overexpression of transcripts originating from the MMSET locus characterizes all t(4;14)(p16;q32)-positive multiple myeloma patients.
- Maintained rules of development in a mouse B-cell tumor.
- Early genetic events provide the basis for a clinical classification of multiple myeloma.
- Gene-expression profiling of Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia reveals a phenotype more similar to chronic lymphocytic leukemia than multiple myeloma.
Awards
- 2012 Phoenix Super Doctors
Treatments
- Multiple Myeloma, Amyloidosis, Waldenstrom Macroglobulinemia
Fellowships
- Medical Staff Fellow - Medical Oncology: National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
- (Medical Oncology), NAT'L CANCER INSTITUTE, BETHESDA, MD 1987
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