Jesse Jenkins, MD

Jesse J. Jenkins, III, MD

Member, St. Jude Faculty
Director of Pathology, International Outreach Program

Departments

Pathology

Contact Information

Jesse Jenkins, III, MD
Pathology
MS 250, Room C-5032
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN 38105-3678
Email: jesse.jenkins@stjude.org
Phone: (901) 595-6304

Education

MD - The Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland


Research Interests

  • All aspects of the neoplasms of infancy and childhood
  • The uses of histochemistry and immunohistochemistry (especially immunofluorescent and immunoperoxidase techniques) in the diagnosis of neoplasms
  • Cryogenic preservation of viable human tumor cells
  • Congenital heart disease

Diagnostic pathology of pediatric solid tumors


Selected Publications

Daw NC, Gregornik D, Rodman J, Narina N, Wu J, Kun LE, Jenkins JJ, McPherson V, Wilimas J, Jones DP. Renal function after ifosfamide, carboplatin, and etoposide (ICE) chemotherapy, nephrectomy, and radiotherapy in children with Wilms tumor. Eur J Cancer 45:99-106, 2009.

Davidoff AM, Giel DW, Jones DP, Jenkins JJ, Krasin MJ, Hoffer FA, Williams MA, Dome JS. The feasibility and outcome of nephron-sparing surgery for children with bilateral Wilms tumor. The St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital experience: 1999-2006. Cancer 112:2060-2070, 2008.

Gumy-Pause F, Bongiovanni M, Wildhaber B, Jenkins JJ, Chardot C, Ozsahin H. Adrenocortical oncocytoma in a child. Pediatr Blood Cancer, Published online 7 Nov 2006.

West AN, Ribeiro RC, Jenkins J, Rodriguez-Galindo C, Figueiredo BC, Kriwacki R, Zambetti GP. Identification of a novel germ line variant hotspot mutant p53-R175L in pediatric adrenal cortical carcinoma. Cancer Res 66:5056-62, 2006.

Gupta H, Davidoff AM, Rao BN, Jenkins JJ, Spunt SL. Neonatal epithelioid sarcoma: a distinct clinical entity? J Pediatr Surg 41:e9-e11, 2006.

Figueiredo BC, Sandrini R, Zambetti GP, Pereira RM, Cheng C, Liu W, Lacerda L, Pianovski MA, Michalkiewicz E, Jenkins J, Rodriguez-Galindo C, Mastellaro MJ, Vianna S, Watanabe F, Sandrini F, Arram SBI, Boffetta P, Ribeiro RC. Penetrance of adrenocortical tumours associated with the germline TP53 R337H mutation. J Med Genet 43:91-6, 2006.

Daw NC, Jenkins JJ, McCarville MB, Rao BN, Neel MN. Case reports: polymethylmethacrylate lung embolus after limb-salvage surgery of the distal femur. Clin Orthop Relat Res 448:252-6, 2006.

Daw NC, Billups CA, Rodriguez-Galindo C, McCarville MB, Rao BN, Cain AM, Jenkins JJ, Neel MD, Meyer WH. Metastatic osteosarcoma. Cancer 106:403-412, 2006

Navid F, Furman WL, Fleming M, Rao BN, Kovach S, Billups CA, Cain AM, Amonette R, Jenkins JJ, Pappo AS. The feasibility of adjuvant interferon alpha-2b in children with high-risk melanoma. Cancer 103:780-787, 2006.

Pappo AS, Devidas M, Jenkins J, Rao B, Marcus R, Thomas P, Gebhardt M, Pratt C, and Grier HE. Phase II trial of neoadjuvant vincristine, ifosfamide, and doxorubicin with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor support in children and adolescents with advanced-stage nonrhabdomyosarcomatous soft tissue sarcomas: A Pediatric Oncology Group Study. J Clin Oncol 23:4031-4038, 2005.

Lowe EJ, Jenkins JJ, Hoffer FA, Lobe TE, Santana VM. Proceedings of the Tumor Board of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital: Anemia and a large abdominal tumor in an adolescent. Pediatr Blood Cancer 42:200-204, 2004.

Stewart CF, Leggas M, Schuetz JD, Panetta JC, Cheshire PJ, Peterson J, Daw N, Jenkins JJ, Gilbertson R, Germain GS, Harwood FC, Houghton PJ. Gefitinib enhances the antitumor activity and oral bioavailability of irinotecan in mice. Cancer Res 64:7491-7499, 2004.

Cypriano MS, Jenkins JJ, Pappo AS, Rao BN, Daw NC. Pediatric gastrointestinal stromal tumors and leiomyosarcoma. The St. Jude Children's Research Hospital experience and a review of the literature. Cancer 101:39-50, 2004.

Michalkiewicz E, Sandrini R, Figueiredo B, Miranda ECM, Caran E, Oliveira-Filho AG, Marques R, Pianovski MAD, Lacerda L, Cristofani LM, Jenkins J, Rodriguez-Galindo C, Ribeiro RC. Clinical and outcome characteristics of children with adrenocortical tumors: a report from the International Pediatric Adrenocortical Tumor Registry. J Clin Oncol 22:838-845, 2004.

Lowe EJ, Jenkins JJ, Hoffer FA, Lobe TE, Santana VM. Proceedings of the tumor board of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Anemia and a large abdominal tumor in an adolescent. Pediatr Blood Cancer 42:200-204, 2004.

Kasow KA, Bonfim C, Asch J, Margolis DA, Jenkins JJ, Tamburro RF, Handgretinger R, Horwitz EM. Malignant infantile osteopetrosis and primary pulmonary hypertension: A new combination? Pediatr Blood Cancer 42:190-194, 2004.

Neel MD, Toy PC, Kaste SC, Jenkins JJ, Daw N, Rao BN. Orthopaedic-Radiology-Pathology Conference: Painful limp in a 10-year-old boy. Clin Orthopaed Relat Res 410:326-333, 2003.

Daw NC, Billups CA, Pappo AS, Jenkins JJ, Mahmoud HH, Krasin MJ, Rao BN. Malignant fibrous histiocytoma and other fibrohistiocytic tumors in pediatric patients. Cancer 97:2839-2847, 2003.

Fouladi M, Wallace D, Langston JW, Mulhern R, Rose SR, Gajjar A, Sanford RA, Merchant TE, Jenkins JJ, Kun LE, Heideman RL. Survival and functional outcome of children with hypothalamic / chiasmatic tumors. Cancer 97:1084-1092, 2003.

Jeng MR, Rieman MD, Naidu PE, Kaste SC, Jenkins JJ, Serjeant G, Wang WC. Resolution of chronic hepatic sequestration in a patient with homozygous sickle cell disease receiving hydroxyurea. J Pediatric Hematol Oncol 25:257-260, 2003.

Muwakkit S, Antillon F, Valverde P, Jenkins JJ 3rd, Zaatari G, Dome JS. Simultaneous occurrence of Wilms tumor and rhabdomyosarcoma in two patients. Med Pediatr Oncol 39:143-145, 2002.

Hanna SL, Kaste S, Jenkins JJ, Hewan-Lowe K, Spence JV, Gupta M, Monson D, Fletcher BD. Epithelioid sarcoma: clinical, MR imaging and pathologic findings. Skeletal Radiol 31:400-412, 2002.

Merchant TE, Jenkins JJ, Burger PC, Sanford RA, Sherwood SH, Jones-Wallace D, Heideman RL, Thompson SJ, Helton KJ, Kun LE. Influence of tumor grade on time to progression after irradiation for localized ependymoma in children. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 53:52-57, 2002.

Strickland DK, Jenkins JJ, Hudson MM. Hepatitis C infection and hepatocellular carcinoma after treatment of childhood cancer. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol 23:527-529, 2001.

Meyer WH, Pratt CB, Poquette CA, Rao BN, Parham DM, Marina NM, Pappo AS, Mahmoud HH, Jenkins JJ, Harper J, Neel M, Fletcher BD. Carboplatin/ifosfamide window therapy for osteosarcoma: results of the St Jude Children's Research Hospital OS-91 trial. J Clin Oncol 19:171-82, 2001.

Fouladi M, Jenkins J, Burger P, Langston J, Merchant T, Heideman R, Thompson S, Sanford A, Kun L, Gajjar A. Pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma: favorable outcome after complete surgical resection. Neuro-Oncology 3:184-92, 2001.

Athale UH, Shurtleff SA, Jenkins JJ, Poquette CA, Tan M, Downing JR, Pappo AS. Use of reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction for diagnosis and staging of alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, Ewing sarcoma family of tumors, and desmoplastic small round cell tumor. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol 23:99-104, 2001.

Last update: July 2009

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