Alessandra Ferrajoli

Peer-Reviewed Articles

1. Tissino E, Benedetti D, Herman SEM, Ten Hacken E, Ahn IE, Chaffee KG, Rossi FM, Dal Bo M, Bulian P, Bomben R, Bayer E, Härzschel A, Gutjahr JC, Postorino M, Santinelli E, Ayed A, Zaja F, Chiarenza A, Pozzato G, Chigaev A, Sklar LA, Burger JA, Ferrajoli A, Shanafelt TD, Wiestner A, Del Poeta G, Hartmann TN, Gattei V, Zucchetto A. Functional and clinical relevance of VLA-4 (CD49d/CD29) in ibrutinib-treated chronic lymphocytic leukemia. J Exp Med 215(2):681-697, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29301866.
2. Falchi L, Vitale C, Keating MJ, Lerner S, Wang X, Elhor Gbito KY, Strom S, Wierda WG, Ferrajoli A. Incidence and Prognostic Impact of Other Cancers in a Population of Long-Term Survivors of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia. Ann Oncol 27(6):1100-6, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 26912560.
3. Vitale C, Falchi L, Ten Hacken E, Gao H, Shaim H, Van Roosbroeck K, Calin G, O'Brien S, Faderl S, Wang X, Wierda WG, Rezvani K, Reuben JM, Burger JA, Keating MJ, Ferrajoli A. Ofatumumab and Lenalidomide for Patients with Relapsed or Refractory Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia: Correlation Between Responses and Immune Characteristics. Clin Cancer Res 22(1):1078-0432, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 26733610.
4. Ravandi F, O'Brien SM, Cortes JE, Thomas DM, Garris R, Faderl S, Burger JA, Rytting ME, Ferrajoli A, Wierda WG, Verstovsek S, Champlin R, Kebriaei P, McCue DA, Huang X, Jabbour E, Garcia-Manero G, Estrov Z, Kantarjian HM. Long-term follow-up of a phase 2 study of chemotherapy plus dasatinib for the initial treatment of patients with Philadelphia chromosome-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Cancer 121(23):4158-64, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26308885.
5. Vitale C, Hinojosa C, Keating J M, Pemmaraju N, O’Brien S, Wierda G W, Thomas H D, Borthakur G, Ohanian M, Burger A J, Ferrajoli A. Ofatumumab as front – line treatment in elderly unfit patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. BLOOD 124(21), 2014.
6. Challagundla P, Jorgensen JL, Kanagal-Shamanna R, Gurevich I, Pierson DM, Ferrajoli A, Reyes SR, Medeiros LJ, Miranda RN. Utility of Quantitative Flow Cytometry Immunophenotypic Analysis of CD5 Expression in Small B-Cell Neoplasms. Arch Pathol Lab Med 138(7):903-9, 2014. PMID: 24978916.
7. Faderl S, Balakrishnan K, Thomas DA, Ravandi F, Borthakur G, Burger J, Ferrajoli A, Cortes J, O'Brien S, Kadia T, Feliu J, Plunkett W, Gandhi V, Kantarjian HM. Phase I and extension study of clofarabine plus cyclophosphamide in patients with relapsed/refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Clin Lymphoma Myeloma Leuk 14(3):231-8, 2014. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 24440659.
8. Strati P, Keating MJ, O'Brien SM, Burger J, Ferrajoli A, Jain N, Tambaro FP, Estrov Z, Jorgensen J, Challagundla P, Faderl SH, Wierda WG. Eradication of bone marrow minimal residual disease may prompt early treatment discontinuation in CLL. Blood 123(24):3727-32, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24705492.
9. Rozovski U, Wu JY, Harris DM, Liu Z, Li P, Hazan-Halevy I, Ferrajoli A, Burger JA, O'Brien S, Jain N, Verstovsek S, Wierda WG, Keating MJ, Estrov Z. Stimulation of the B-cell receptor activates the JAK2/STAT3 signaling pathway in chronic lymphocytic leukemia cells. Blood 123(24):3797-802, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24778152.
10. Falchi L, Keating MJ, Marom EM, Truong MT, Schlette EJ, Sargent RL, Trinh L, Wang X, Smith SC, Jain N, Estrov Z, O'Brien S, Wierda WG, Lerner S, Ferrajoli A. Correlation between FDG/PET, histology, characteristics, and survival in 332 patients with chronic lymphoid leukemia. Blood 123(18):2783-90, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24615780.
11. Strati P, Ferrajoli A, Lerner S, O'Brien S, Wierda W, Keating MJ, Faderl S. Fludarabine, cyclophosphamide and rituximab plus granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor as frontline treatment for patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Leuk Lymphoma 55(4):828-33, 2014. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 23808813.
12. Ohanian M, Kantarjian HM, Quintas-Cardama A, Jabbour E, Abruzzo L, Verstovsek S, Borthakur G, Ravandi F, Garcia-Manero G, Champlin R, Pierce S, Alattar ML, Trinh LX, Luthra R, Ferrajoli A, Kadia T, O'Brien S, Cortes JE. Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors as Initial Therapy for Patients With Chronic Myeloid Leukemia in Accelerated Phase. Clin Lymphoma Myeloma Leuk 14(2):155-162.e1, 2014. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 24332214.
13. Bulian P, Shanafelt TD, Fegan C, Zucchetto A, Cro L, Nückel H, Baldini L, Kurtova AV, Ferrajoli A, Burger JA, Gaidano G, Del Poeta G, Pepper C, Rossi D, Gattei V. CD49d is the strongest flow cytometry-based predictor of overall survival in chronic lymphocytic leukemia. J Clin Oncol 32(9):897-904, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24516016.
14. Daver N, Vega-Ruiz A, Kantarjian HM, Estrov Z, Ferrajoli A, Kornblau S, Verstovsek S, Garcia-Manero G, Cortes JE. A phase II open-label study of the intravenous administration of homoharringtonine in the treatment of myelodysplastic syndrome. Eur J Cancer Care (Engl) 22(5):605-11, 2013. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 23701251.
15. Ferrajoli A. Interfering with CD40 Ligation: A Sensitive Matter in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia. Leuk Lymphoma 53(11):2093-2094, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 22563816.
16. Coombs CC, Falchi L, Weinberg JB, Ferrajoli A, Lanasa MC. Chronic lymphocytic leukemia in African Americans. Leuk Lymphoma 53(11):2326-9, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 22646816.
17. Faderl S, Ravandi F, Huang X, Wang X, Jabbour E, Garcia-Manero G, Kadia T, Ferrajoli A, Konopleva M, Borthakur G, Burger J, Feliu J, Kantarjian HM. Clofarabine plus low-dose cytarabine followed by clofarabine plus low-dose cytarabine alternating with decitabine in acute myeloid leukemia frontline therapy for older patients. Cancer 118(18):4471-7, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 22282348.
18. Coombs CC, Rassenti LZ, Falchi L, Slager SL, Strom SS, Ferrajoli A, Weinberg JB, Kipps TJ, Lanasa MC. Single-nucleotide polymorphisms and inherited risk of chronic lymphocytic leukemia among African Americans. Blood 120(8):1687-90, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 22745306.
19. Garg R, Wierda W, Ferrajoli A, Abruzzo L, Pierce S, Lerner S, Keating M, O'Brien S. The prognostic difference of monoallelic versus biallelic deletion of 13q in chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Cancer 118(14):3531-3537, 2012. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 22139735.
20. Eghtedar A, Verstovsek S, Estrov Z, Burger J, Cortes J, Bivins C, Faderl S, Ferrajoli A, Borthakur G, George S, Scherle PA, Newton RC, Kantarjian HM, Ravandi F. Phase II study of the JAK kinase inhibitor ruxolitinib in patients with refractory leukemias, including post myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN) acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Blood 119(20):4614-8, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 22422826.
21. Wendtner CM, Hillmen P, Mahadevan D, Bühler A, Uharek L, Coutré S, Frankfurt O, Bloor A, Bosch F, Furman RR, Kimby E, Gribben JG, Gobbi M, Dreisbach L, Hurd DD, Sekeres MA, Ferrajoli A, Shah S, Zhang J, Moutouh-de Parseval L, Hallek M, Heerema NA, Stilgenbauer S, Chanan-Khan AA. Final results of a multicenter phase 1 study of lenalidomide in patients with relapsed or refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Leuk Lymphoma 53(3):417-423, 2012. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 21879809.
22. Tong WG, Estrov Z, Wang Y, O'Brien S, Faderl S, Harris DM, Van Pham Q, Hazan-Halevy I, Liu Z, Koch P, Kantarjian H, Keating MJ, Ferrajoli A. The synthetic heat shock protein 90 inhibitor EC141 induces degradation of Bcr-Abl p190 protein and apoptosis of Ph-Positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia cells. Invest New Drugs 29(6):1206-1212, 2011. e-Pub 2010. PMID: 20533075.
23. Badoux X, Bueso-Ramos C, Harris D, Li P, Liu Z, Burger J, O'Brien S, Ferrajoli A, Keating MJ, Estrov Z. Cross-talk between chronic lymphocytic leukemia cells and bone marrow endothelial cells: role of signal transducer and activator of transcription 3. Hum Pathol 42(12):1989-2000, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 21733558.
24. Wierda WG, O'Brien S, Wang X, Faderl S, Ferrajoli A, Do KA, Garcia-Manero G, Cortes J, Thomas D, Koller CA, Burger JA, Lerner S, Schlette E, Abruzzo L, Kantarjian HM, Keating MJ. Multivariable Model for Time to First Treatment in Patients With Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia. J Clin Oncol 29(31):4088-95, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 21969505.
25. Lee BN, Gao H, Cohen EN, Badoux X, Wierda WG, Estrov Z, Faderl SH, Keating MJ, Ferrajoli A, Reuben JM. Treatment with lenalidomide modulates T-cell immunophenotype and cytokine production in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Cancer 117(17):3999-4008, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 21858802.
26. Badoux XC, Keating MJ, Wen S, Lee BN, Sivina M, Reuben J, Wierda WG, O'Brien SM, Faderl S, Kornblau SM, Burger JA, Ferrajoli A. Lenalidomide as initial therapy of elderly patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Blood 118(13):3489-3498, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 21725050.
27. Badoux XC, Keating MJ, Wang X, O'Brien SM, Ferrajoli A, Faderl S, Burger J, Koller C, Lerner S, Kantarjian H, Wierda WG. Cyclophosphamide, fludarabine, rituximab and alemtuzumab (CFAR) as salvage therapy for heavily pre-treated patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Blood 118(8):2085-2093, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 21670470.
28. Ferrajoli A, Keating MJ, O'Brien S, Cortes J, Thomas DA. Experience with rituximab immunotherapy as an early intervention in patients with Rai stage 0 to II chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Cancer 117(14):3182-3186, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 21246526.
29. Ferrajoli A, Buzdar AU, Dejesus Y, Cheng L, Michaud LB, Rodriguez MA. Usage of erythropoiesis-stimulating agents in cancer patients at an academic cancer center and experience with specific care management tools for anemia. Cancer 117(14):3268-3275, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 21264831.
30. Badoux XC, Keating MJ, Wang X, O'Brien SM, Ferrajoli A, Faderl S, Burger J, Koller C, Lerner S, Kantarjian H, Wierda WG. Fludarabine, cyclophosphamide and rituximab chemoimmunotherapy is highly effective treatment for relapsed patients with CLL. Blood 117(11):3016-3024, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 21245487.
31. Badoux XC, Keating MJ, Wang X, O'Brien SM, Ferrajoli A, Faderl S, Burger J, Koller C, Lerner S, Kantarjian H, Wierda WG. Fludarabine, cyclophosphamide, and rituximab chemoimmunotherapy is highly effective treatment for relapsed patients with CLL. Blood 117(11):3016-3024, 2011.
32. Ferrajoli A. Incorporating the use of GM-CSF in the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Leuk Lymphoma 50(3):514-516, 2009. PMID: 19347738.
33. Motta M, Wierda WG, Ferrajoli A. Chronic lymphocytic leukemia: treatment options for patients with refractory disease. Cancer 115(17):3830-3841, 2009. e-Pub 2009. PMID: 19536902.
34. Ferrajoli A, Wierda WG, Lapushin R, O'Brien SM, Faderl S, Browning ML, Keating MJ.. Pilot experience with continuous infusion alemtuzumab in patients with fludarabine-refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Eur J Haematol 80(4):296-298, 2008. PMID: 18182081.
35. Ferrajoli A, Lee B-L, Schlette EJ, O'Brien SM, Gao H, Wen S, Wierda WG, Estrov Z, Faderl S, Cohen EN, Li C, Reuben JM, Keating MJ. Lenalidomide induces complete and partial remissions in patients with relapsed and refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Blood 111(11):5291-5297, 2008. PMID: 18334676.
36. Ferrajoli A, Faderl S, Van Q, Koch P, Harris D, Liu Z, Hazan-Halevy I, Wang Y, Kantarjian HM, Priebe W, Estrov Z. WP1066 disrupts Janus kinase-2 and induces caspase-dependent apoptosis in acute myeloid leukemia cells. Cancer Res 67(23):11291-11299, 2007. PMID: 18056455.
37. Ferrajoli A, Faderl S, Ravandi F, Estrov Z. The JAK-STAT pathway: a therapeutic target in hematological malignancies. Curr Cancer Drug Targets 6(8):671-679, 2006. PMID: 17168672.
38. Rytting ME, Thomas DA, O'Brien SM, Ravandi-Kashani F, Jabbour EJ, Franklin AR, Kadia TM, Pemmaraju N, Daver NG, Ferrajoli A, Garcia-Manero G, Konopleva MY, Cortes JE, Borthakur G, Garris R, Cardenas-Turanzas M, Schroeder K, Jorgensen JL, Kornblau SM, Kantarjian HM. Augmented Berlin-Frankfurt-Münster therapy in adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Cancer. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 25042398.
39. Strati P, Keating MJ, O' Brien SM, Ferrajoli A, Burger J, Faderl S, Tambaro FP, Jain N, Wierda WG. Outcomes of first-line treatment for chronic lymphocytic leukemia with 17p deletion. Haematologica. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24859876.
40. Li P, Harris D, Liu Z, Rozovski U, Ferrajoli A, Wang Y, Bueso-Ramos C, Hazan-Halevy I, Grgurevic S, Wierda W, Burger J, O'Brien S, Faderl S, Keating M, Estrov Z. STAT3-Activated GM-CSFRalpha Translocates to the Nucleus and Protects CLL Cells from Apoptosis. Mol Cancer Res. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24836891.

Other Articles

1. Ferrajoli A, O'Brien SM, Faderl S, Wierda WG, Reuben JM, Keating MJ Lenalidomide: An emerging option in chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Haematologica Meeting Reports 3(3):103-105, 2009.

Abstracts

1. Falchi L, Keating MK, Wang X, Schlette EJ, Sargent RL, Marom EM, Truong M, Wierda WG, Ferrajoli A. Predictors of survival in patients with transformed chronic lymphocytic leukemia (TC). Journal of Clinical Oncology.
2. Francesco Autore, Paolo Strati, Idanna Innocenti, Francesco Corrente , Livio Trentin, Agostino Cortelezzi, Marta Coscia, Alessandro Gozzetti, Massimo Gentile, Fortunato Morabito, Giovanni D'Arena, Roberta Murru, Donatella Iolanda Vincelli, Gianluigi Reda, Candida Vitale, Alessandra Ferrajoli and Luca Laurenti1*. Opposite Effects of Bruton Tyrosine Kinase (BTK) Inhibitor Therapy with Ibrutinib and FCR Chemo-Immunotherapy on the Normal B Lymphocyte Repertoire in Patients with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia.
3. Jessica Hwang, Maria E. Suarez-Almazor, Scott B. Cantor, Andrea G. Barbo, Heather Y. Lin, Sairah Ahmed, Mariana Chavez-Mac Gregor, Christian Donato-Santana, Cathy Eng, Alessandra Ferrajoli, Michael Fisch, Peter McLaughlin, George R. Simon, Gabriela Rondon, Elizabeth J. Shpall, Anna S. F. Lok. Impact of the timing of hepatitis B virus (HBV) identification and anti-HBV therapy initiation on the risk of adverse liver outcomes in patients receiving cancer therapy. 2017 ASCO Annual Meeting (Oral presentation). Journal of Clinical Oncology.
4. Thompson P, Wierda W, Ferrajoli A, Smith S , O'Brien S, Burger J, Estrov Z, Jain N, Kantarjian H, Keating M.. Complex Karyotype, Rather Than Del(17p), Is Associated with Inferior Outcomes in Relapsed or Refractory CLL Patients Treated with Ibrutinib-Based Regimens. 56th Annual ASH Meeting, 2014.
5. Jain P, Trinh L, Wang X, Benjamini O, Lerner S, Burger J, Ferrajoli A, Estrov Z, Kantarjian H, O’Brien S, Wierda WG. Deletion 11q abnormality in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) may not have adverse outcomes. XViw CLL 2013 Conference.
6. Ferrajoli A. Lenalidomide-based Regimens in Salvage and Frontline Therapy of CLL.
7. Rozovski U, Li P, Harris D, Liu Z, Ferrajoli A, Wang Y, Bueso-Ramos C, Hazan-Halevy I, Grgurevic S, Wierda WG. STAT3-activated GM-CSFRα translocates to the nucleus and protects CLL cells from apoptosis.XViw CLL 2013 Conference.
8. Strati P, Wierda WG, Burger JA, Ferrajoli A, Lerner S, Keating MJ, O'Brien SM. Prolonged cytopenia related to fludarabine, cyclophosphamide and rituximab in chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Haematologica.
9. Strati P, Keating MK, Wierda WG, Badoux X, Calin S, Reuben J, O'Brien SM, Kornblau S, Kantarjian H, Lee BN, Ferrajoli A. Long-lasting responses to Lenalidomide as initial therapy of elderly patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Haematologica.
10. Bulian P, Shanafelt TD, Fegan C, Zucchetto A, Cro L, Nuckel H, Baldini L, Kurtova AV, Ferrajoli A, Burger JA, Gaidano G, Del Poeta G, Pepper C, Rossi D, Gattei V. CD49D has independent negative predictive power for overall survival in chronic lymphocytic leukemia: results from multi-center pooled analysis. Haematologica.
11. Strati P, Keating MK, O'Brien SM, Ferrajoli A, Burger JA, Jain N, Estrov Z, Jorgensen J, Faderl S, Wierda WG. Achieving bone marrow CLL minimal residual disease-free status with first-line FCR is associated with improved PFS and can be considered a primary treatment objective. Haematologica.
12. Strati P, Keating MJ, O'Brien SM, Ferrajoli A, Burger JA, Faderl S, Jain N, Wierda WG. Outcomes of first-line treatment for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) with 17p deletion (dell7p). Journal of Clinical Oncology.