Dr. Bruce Anthony Werness M.D.
Pathologist | Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology
3600 Joseph Siewick Dr Fairfax VA, 22033About
Dr. Bruce Werness is a pathologist practicing in Fairfax, VA. Dr. Werness is a doctor who specializes in the study of bodily fluids and tissues. As a pathologist, Dr. Werness can help your primary care doctor make a diagnosis about your medical condition. Dr. Werness may perform a tissue biopsy to determine if a patient has cancer, practice genetic testing, and complete a number of laboratory examinations. Pathologists can also perform autopsies which can determine a persons cause of death and gain information about genetic progression of a disease.
Education and Training
Univ of Co Sch of Med, Denver Co 1984
University Of Colorado School Of Medicine 1984
Board Certification
PathologyAmerican Board of PathologyABP
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Trisomy 8 in stage I and stage III ovarian cancer detected by fluorescence in situ hybridization.
- Expression of the hyaluronan receptor, CD44S, in epithelial ovarian cancer is an independent predictor of survival.
- HER-2/neu oncogene amplification in stage I and stage III ovarian papillary serous carcinoma.
- Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors of the head and neck: analysis of prognostic factors.
- Identification of a novel 9 cM deletion unit on chromosome 6q23-24 in papillary serous carcinoma of the peritoneum.
- CD44 mediates constitutive type I receptor signaling in cervical carcinoma cells.
- Expression of CD44S and CD44v5 is more common in stage III than in stage I serous ovarian carcinomas.
- Transitional cell ovarian carcinoma in a BRCA1 mutation carrier.
- Endometrial carcinoma cells are nonpermissive for CD44-erbB2 interactions.
- Proficiency testing in gynecologic cytology.
- Role of the human papillomavirus oncoproteins in transformation and carcinogenic progression.
- Association of human papillomavirus types 16 and 18 E6 proteins with p53.
- The E6 oncoprotein encoded by human papillomavirus types 16 and 18 promotes the degradation of p53.
- Genital human papillomavirus infections.
- Cytopathology of sexually transmitted disease.
Awards
- 1988 Scholar, College of American Pathologists
- National Research Council 1988 Fellow
- American Society for Investigative Pathology 1990 Experimental Pathologist in Training Award
Fellowships
- Molecular Virology, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD USA 1990
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