Czerniecki B. Gad SC. Reilly C. Smith AC. Witz G. Phorbol diacetate inhibits superoxide anion radical production and tumor promotion by mezerein. Carcinogenesis. 7(10):1637-1641, Oct. 1986.

Czerniecki B. Witz G. Reilly C. Gad SC. The development of contact hypersensitivity in mouse skin is suppressed by tumor promoters. Journal of Applied Toxicology. 8(1):1-8, Feb. 1988.

Ryer-Powder JE. Amoruso MA. Czerniecki B. Witz G. Goldstein BD. Inhalation of ozone produces a decrease in superoxide anion radical production in mouse alveolar macrophages. American Review of Respiratory Disease. 138(5):1129-1133, Nov. 1988.

Witz G. Czerniecki BJ. Tumor promoters differ in their ability to stimulate superoxide anion radical production by murine peritoneal exudate cells following in vivo administration. Carcinogenesis. 10(5):807-811, May 1989.

Goldstein BD. Czerniecki B. Witz G. The role of free radicals in tumor promotion. Environmental Health Perspectives. 81:55-57, May 1989.

Czerniecki BJ. Witz G. Arachidonic acid potentiates superoxide anion radical production by murine peritoneal macrophages stimulated with tumor promoters. Carcinogenesis. 10(10):1769-1775, Oct. 1989.

Czerniecki BJ. Witz G. Tumor promoters stimulate the formation of 1,2-diacylglycerol in murine peritoneal macrophages: a possible mechanism for stimulating superoxide anion radical production. Cancer Letters. 48(1):29-36, Nov. 15, 1989.

Czerniecki BJ. Carter C. Rivoltini L. Koski GK. Kim HI. Weng DE. Roros JG. Hijazi YM. Xu S. Rosenberg SA. Cohen PA. Calcium ionophore-treated peripheral blood monocytes and dendritic cells rapidly display characteristics of activated dendritic cells. Journal of Immunology. 159(8):3823-3837, Oct. 15, 1997.

Czerniecki BJ. Scheff AM. Callans LS. Spitz FR. Bedrosian I. Conant EF. Orel SG. Berlin J. Helsabeck C. Fraker DL. Reynolds C. Immunohistochemistry with pancytokeratins improves the sensitivity of sentinel lymph node biopsy in patients with breast carcinoma. Cancer. 85(5):1098-1103, Mar. 1, 1999.

Reynolds C. Mick R. Donohue JH. Grant CS. Farley DR. Callans LS. Orel SG. Keeney GL. Lawton TJ. Czerniecki BJ. Sentinel lymph node biopsy with metastasis: can axillary dissection be avoided in some patients with breast cancer?. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 17(6):1720-1726, June 1999.

Bedrosian I. Scheff AM. Mick R. Callans LS. Bucky LP. Spitz FR. Helsabeck C. Elder DE. Alavi A. Fraker DF. Czerniecki BJ. 99mTc-human serum albumin: An effective radiotracer for identi-fying sentinel lymph nodes in melanoma. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 40(7):1143-1148, July 1999.

Koski GK. Schwartz GN. Weng DE. Czerniecki BJ. Carter C. Gress RE. Cohen PA. Calcium mobilization in human myeloid cells results in acquisition of individual dendritic cell-like charac-teristics through discrete signaling pathways. Journal of Immunology. 163(1):82-92, July 1, 1999.

Koski GK. Schwartz GN. Weng DE. Gress RE. Engels FH. Tsokos M. Czerniecki BJ. Cohen PA. Calcium ionophore-treated myeloid cells acquire many dendritic cell characteristics independent of prior differentiation state, transformation status, or sensitivity to biologic agents. Blood. 94(4):1359-1371, Aug. 15, 1999.

Engels FH. Koski GK. Bedrosian I. Xu S. Luger S. Nowell PC. Cohen PA. Czerniecki BJ. Calcium signaling induces acquisition of dendritic cell characteristics in chronic myelogenous leukemia myeloid progenitor cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 96(18):10332-10337, Aug. 31, 1999.

Weinstein S. Zuckerman J. Lawton T. Orel S. Czerniecki BJ. Conant E. Retrospective review of palpable breast lesions after negative mammography and sonography. Journal of Women's Imaging 2:15-18, 2000.

Faries MB. Bedrosian I. Reynolds C. Nguyen HQ. Alavi A. Czerniecki BJ. Active macromolecule uptake by lymph node antigen-presenting cells: a novel mechanism in determining sentinel lymph node status. Annals of Surgical Oncology. 7(2):98-105, Mar. 2000.

Bedrosian I. Faries MB. Guerry D 4th. Elenitsas R. Schuchter L. Mick R. Spitz FR. Bucky LP. Alavi A. Elder DE. Fraker DL. Czerniecki BJ. Incidence of sentinel node metastasis in patients with thin primary melanoma (< or = 1 mm) with vertical growth phase. Annals of Surgical Oncology. 7(4):262-7, May 2000.

Bedrosian I. Roros JG. Xu S. Nguyen HQ. Engels F. Faries MB. Koski GK. Cohen PA. Czerniecki BJ. Granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor, interleukin-2, and interleukin-12 synergize with calcium ionophore to enhance dendritic cell function. Journal of Immunotherapy. 23(3):311-20, May/June 2000.

Bedrosian I. Reynolds C. Mick R. Callans LS. Grant CS. Donohue JH. Farley DR. Heller R. Conant E. Orel SG. Lawton T. Fraker DL. Czerniecki BJ. Accuracy of sentinel lymph node biopsy in patients with large primary breast tumors. Cancer. 88(11):2540-2545, June 1, 2000.

Orel SG. Dougherty CS. Reynolds C. Czerniecki BJ. Siegelman ES. Schnall MD. MR imaging in patients with nipple discharge: initial experience. Radiology. 216(1):248-254, July 2000.

Engels FH. Kreisel D. Faries MB. Bedrosian I. Koski GK. Cohen PA. Czerniecki BJ. Calcium ionophore activation of chronic myelogenous leukemia progenitor cells into dendritic cells is mediated by calcineurin phosphatase. Leukemia Research. 24(10):795-804, Oct. 2000.

Weinstein SP. Orel SG. Heller R. Reynolds C. Czerniecki B. Solin LJ. Schnall M. MR imaging of the breast in patients with invasive lobular carcinoma. AJR. American Journal of Roentgenology. 176(2):399-406, Feb. 2001.

Chang JH. Vines E. Bertsch H. Fraker DL. Czerniecki BJ. Rosato EF. Lawton T. Conant EF. Orel SG. Schuchter L. Fox KR. Zieber N. Glick JH. Solin LJ. The impact of a multidisciplinary breast cancer center on recommendations for patient management: the University of Pennsylvania experience. Cancer 91(7):1231-1237, Apr. 1, 2001.

Czerniecki BJ. Cohen PA. Faries M. Xu S. Roros JG. Bedrosian I. Diverse functional activity of CD83+ monocyte-derived dendritic cells and the implications for cancer vaccines. Critical Reviews in Immunology 21(1-3):157-178, 2001.

Cohen PA. Peng L. Kjaergaard J. Plautz GE. Finke JH. Koski GK. Czerniecki BJ. Shu S. T-cell adoptive therapy of tumors: Mechanisms of improved therapeutic performance. Critical Reviews in Immunology 21(1-3):215-248, 2001.

Czerniecki BJ. Bedrosian I. Faries M. Alavi A. Revolutionary impact of lymphoscintigraphy and intraoperative sentinel node mapping in the clinical practice of oncology. Seminars in Nuclear Medicine 31(2):158-164, Apr. 2001.

Wildemore JK 4th. Schuchter L. Mick R. Synnestvedt M. Elenitsas R. Bedrosian I. Czerniecki BJ. Guerry D 4th. Lessin SR. Elder DE. Bucky LP. Locally recurrent malignant melanoma characteristics and outcomes: A single-institution study. Annals of Plastic Surgery 46(5):488-494, May 2001.

Weinstein SP. Orel SG. Collazzo L. Conant EF. Lawton TJ. Czerniecki B. Cyclosporin A-induced fibroadenomas of the breast: Report of five cases. Radiology 220(2):465-468, Aug. 2001.

Faries MB. Bedrosian I. Xu S. Koski G. Roros JG. Moise MA. Nguyen HQ. Engels FH. Cohen PA. Czerniecki BJ. Calcium signaling inhibits interleukin-12 production and activates CD83(+) dendritic cells that induce Th2 cell development. Blood 98(8):2489-2497, Oct. 15, 2001.

Bauer TW. Spitz FR. Callans LS. Alavi A. Mick R. Weinstein SP. Bedrosian I. Fraker DL. Bauer TL. Czerniecki BJ. Subareolar and peritumoral injection identify similar sentinel nodes for breast cancer. Annals of Surgical Oncology 9(2):169-176, Mar. 2002.

Prabakaran I. Menon C. Xu S. Gomez-Yafal A. Czerniecki BJ. Fraker DL. Mature CD83(+) dendritic cells infected with recombinant gp100 vaccinia virus stimulate potent antimelanoma T cells. Annals of Surgical Oncology 9(4):411-418, May 2002.

Bedrosian I. Schlencker J. Spitz FR. Orel SG. Fraker DL. Callans LS. Schnall M. Reynolds C. Czerniecki BJ. Magnetic resonance imaging-guided biopsy of mammographically and clinically occult breast lesions. Annals of Surgical Oncology 9(5):457-461, June 2002.

Lee SG. Orel SG. Woo IJ. Cruz-Jove E. Putt ME. Solin LJ. Czerniecki BJ. Schnall MD. MR imaging screening of contralateral breast in patients with newly diagnosed breast cancer: Preliminary results. Radiology 226(3):773-778, Mar. 2003.

Bedrosian I, Schlencker J, Mick R, Orel S, Schnall M, Reynolds C, Spitz FR, Callans L, Buzby GP, Rosato EF, Fraker DL, Czerniecki BJ. Changes in the surgical management of patients with breast carcinoma based on preoperative magnetic resonance imaging. Cancer 98(3):468-473, Aug. 1, 2003.

Xu S, Koski GK, Faries MB, Bedrosian I, Mick R, Maeurer M, Chever, Cohen PA, Czerniecki BJ. Rapid high efficiency sensitization of CD8 + T cells to tumor antigens by dendritic cells leads to enhanced functional avidity and direct tumor recognition through an IL- 12 dependent mechanism. Journal of Immunology 171(5):2251-2261, Sept. 1, 2003.

Bedrosian IB, Mick R, Xu S, Nisenbaum H, Faries M, Zhang P, Cohen PA, Koski G, Czerniecki BJ. Intranodal administration of peptide-pulsed mature dendritic cell vaccines results in superior CD8+ T cell function in melanoma patients. Journal of Clinical Oncology 21(20):3826-3835, Oct. 15, 2003.

Koski GK, Kariko K, Xu S, Weissman D, Cohen PA, Czerniecki BJ, Cutting Edge: Innate immune system discriminates between RNA containing bacterial versus eukaryotic structural features that prime for high-level IL-12 secretion by dendritic cells. The Journal of Immunology, 2004, 172: 3989-3993, 2004.

Gimotty PA, Guerry D, Ming ME, Elenitsas R, Xiaowei Xu, Czerniecki B, Spitz F, Schucter L, Elder, D. Thin primary cutaneous malignant melanoma: A prognostic tree for ten metastasis is more accurate than AJCC staging. Journal of Clinical Oncology 2004, 22: 3668-3676.

Kesmodel SB, Karakousis GC, Botbyl, JD, Canter RJ, Lewis RT, Wahl PM, Terhune KP, Alavi, A, Elder DE, Ming ME, Guerry D, Gimotty PA, Fraker DL, Czerniecki BJ, Spitz, FR. Mitotic rate as a predictor of sentinel lymph node positivity in patients with thin melanoma. Annals of Surgical Oncology 12: 449-458 2005.

Bedrosian, I. Czerniecki BJ. Change in surgical Management of breast cancer patients based on preoperative MR imaging Am J Onc Rev, 2004; 3(4):209.

Downes K, Glatt BS, Kanchwala SK, Mick R, Fraker DL, Fox KR, Solin LJ, Bucky LP, Czerniecki BJ. Skin-sparing mastectomy and immediate reconstruction as an acceptable treatment option for high-risk breast cancer patients. Cancer 2005.

Koski, GK, and Czerniecki BJ. Combining innate immunity with radiation therapy for cancer treatment. Clinical Can Res. 2005, 11: 7-11.

Chance B, Nioka S, Zhang J, Conant EF, Hwang E, Briest SG, Orel SG, Schnall MD, Czerniecki BJ. Breast Cancer Detection based on incremental biochemical and physiological properties of breast cancers a six-year, two-site study. Acad Radiol 2005; 12(8):925-933.

Choe R, Corlu A, Lee K, Durduran T, Konecky SD, Grosicka-Koptyra M, Arridge S, Czerniecki BJ, Fraker DL, DeMichele A, Chance B, Rosen M, Yodh A. Diffuse optical Tomography of breast cancer during neoadjuvant chemotherapy: a case study in comparison to MRI. Medical Physics 32:1128-1139 2005.

Jackson BM, Kim S, Davidson R, Schuchter L, Acs G, Czerniecki BJ. Re-operative sentinel lymph node biopsy: a case report. Clinical Breast Cancer 6: 530-532 2006.

Durduran, T, Choe R, Yu, G, Zhou C, Tchou, J, Czerniecki BJ, Yodh, A. Diffuse optical measurement of blood flow in breast tumors. Optics Letters 2005, 30:2915-2917.

Somasundaram R, Swoboda R, Caputo L, Otvos L, Weber B, Volpe P, VanBelle P, Hotz, Elder DE, Marincola FM, Schuchter, L, Guerry D, Czerniecki BJ, Herlyn D. HLA-A2-restricted CTL responses to mutated BRAF peptides in melanoma patients. Cancer Res. 2006; 66:3287-3293.

Karakousis GC, Gimotty PA, Botbyl, Kesmodel SB, Elder DE, Ming ME, Guerry D, Fraker DL, Czerniecki BJ, Spitz FR. Predictors of regional nodal disease in patients with thin melanomas. Annals of Surgical Oncology 13: 533-541 2006.

Kesmodel SB, Canter RJ, Terhune KP, Bauer TW, Mick R, Rosato EF, Spitz FR, Fraker DL, Alavi A, Czerniecki BJ. Use of radiotracer for sentinel lymph node mapping in breast cancer optimizes staging independent of site of administration. Clinical Nuclear Medicine 31:1-7 2006.

Xu S, Koldovsky U, Xu M, Wang D, Fitzpatrick E, Son G, Koski G, Czerniecki BJ. Toll receptor 8 signaling primes myeloid dendritic cells for high level IL-12 production. Surgery 140:170-178 2006.

Gimotty, PA, Elder DE, Fraker DL, Botbyl J, Sellers K, Elenitsas R, Ming ME, Schuchter L, Spitz FR, Czerniecki BJ, Guerry D. Biologically-based prognostic factors improve risk discrimination in patients with thin (=1.00) invasive cutaneous melanoms. (Submitted for Publication).

Mavi A, Urhan M, Yu JQ, Zhuang H, Houseni M, Cermik TF, Czerniecki B, Schnall M, Alavi A. Dual time point FDG-PET imaging detects breast cancer with high sensitivity and correlates well with histologic subtypes of the lesions. J. Nuclear Medicine 47: 1440-1446 2006.

Zhang T, Somasundarum R, Caputo, L, VanBelle P, Elder D, Czerniecki B, Hotz S, Schuchter L, Spitz FR, Klara B, Rani P, Marincola F, Qiu R, Herlyn D. Preferential Involvement of CX Chemokine Receptor 4 and CX Chemokine Ligand 12 in T-cell migration toward melanoma cells. Cancer Biology & Therapy (In Press).

Czerniecki BJ, Xu M, Koski G. Neoadjuvant Therapy for HER-2/neu-expressing ductal carcinoma in situ using type 1 polarized dendritic cell vaccines. Breast Diseases: A Yearbook Quarterly 17: 320-323 2007.

Czerniecki BJ, Koski GK, Koldovsky U, Xu S, Cohen PA, Mick R, Nisenbaum H, Pasha T, Xu M, Fox KR, Weinstein S, Orel SG, Vonderheide R, Coukos G, DeMichele A, Araujo L, Spitz FR, Rosen M, Levine BL, June C, Zhang PJ. Targeting HER-2/neu in early breast cancer development using dendritic cells with staged IL-12 burst secretion. Cancer Res (In Press).

Roses R, Xu M, Xu S, Koldovsky U, Son G, Koski GK, Czerniecki BJ. Working towards the development of cancer vaccines for the treatment and prevention of breast cancer. Current Cancer Therapy Reviews (In Press).

Research Publications, non-peer reviewed
Witz G. Czerniecki BJ. In vivo inhibition by phorbol esters of oxy radical production by murine peritoneal exudate cells stimulated with phorbol myristate acetate. Annals of the NY Academy of Science 494:294-295, 1987.

Buell JF. Temeck BK. Czerniecki BJ. Lubensky IA. Pass HI. Management of thoracic carcinoid tumors in multiple endocrine neoplasia I population. Contemporary Surgery 49:200-206, 1996.

Mulvany KP. Prabakaran I. Shuwen Xu M. Khorrami C. Menon C. Czerniecki BJ. Fraker DL. Callans LS. Human monocyte-derived dendritic cells transduced with recombinant adenovirus present melanoma antigen gp100 to cytotoxic T lymphocytes in vitro. Surgical Forum 50:311-313, 1999.

Abstracts (last 3 years)
Czerniecki BJ. Xu S. Koski G. IL-12 production by DC enhances CD8 heterodimer usage and increases functional avidity of anti-tumorCD8+ T cells. Keystone Symposium, Feb. 2003.

Xu S. Koski GK. Faries M. Bedrosian I. Mick R. Thomas E. Cheever M. Cohen P. Czerniecki BJ. IL-12 secreting DC1 induces high functional avidity tumor recognizing CD8+T cells American Association for Cancer Researchers 94th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, July 2003.

Koski G. Kariki K. Xu S. Czerniecki BJ. Human dendritic cells discriminate between RNA containing eukaryotic versus prokaryotic structural features that prime for high-level IL-12 secretion. American Association of Immunologists Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, April 2003.

Kesmodel SB. Karakousis GC. Terhune KP. Canter RJ. Wahl PM. Gimotty PA. Guerry D. Fraker DL. Czerniecki BJ. Spitz FR. Mitotic rate as a predictor of sentinel lymph node positivity in patients with thin melanomas. Society of Surgical Oncology, Annual Cancer Symposium, March 2004.

Kruper LL. Karakousis GC. Kesmodel SB. Kumar R. Gimotty PA. Guerry D. Spitz FR. Fraker DL. Alavi A. Czerniecki BJ. Possible therapeutic role of sentinel node biopsy in thin (<1.0 mm) melanomas. Society of Nuclear Medicine, Annual Meeting, June 2004.

Czerniecki BJ, Koldovsky Uu Xu S, Mick R, Nisenbaum H, Orel S, Fox K, Koski G. Combining innate and adaptive immunity for the treatment of breast cancer. International Society of Biological Therapy Meeting, Alexandria VA. November 2005.

Czerniecki BJ, Koldovsky U, Xu S, Xu M, Son G, Nissenbaum H, Zhang P, Mick R, Koski G. Immunoediting Breast Cancer Using HER-2/Neu Pulsed Autologous Dendritic Cell Vaccines. Presented at the Society of University Surgeons, San Diego, CA February 2006.

Xu S, Koldovsky U, Xu, M, Son G, Fitzpatrick E, Wang D, Mick R, Nissenbaum, Zhang P, and Czerniecki BJ. Type-I polarized HER-2/neu pulsed dendritic cell vaccines generate anti-tumor CD8+ T cells despite the presence of antigen specific CD8+ tolerance in patients with early non-invasive breast cancer. American Association for Cancer Research, Washington DC April 2006.

Editorials, Reviews, Chapters & Participation in Committee Reports
Witz G. Czerniecki BJ. Gad SC. Goldstein BD. In vivo stimulation of oxy radicals by mouse skin tumor promoters. In Cerrutti P, Nygaard O, Simic MG (eds): Anticarcinogenesis and Radiation Protection. New York: Plenum Publ. Co., 1987, 199-205.

Cohen PA. Fowler DH. Kim H. White RL. Czerniecki BJ. Carter C. Gress RE. Rosenberg SA. Propagation of mouse and human T cells with defined antigen specificity and function. In: Vaccines against Virally Induced Cancers. New York: Wiley & Sons, 1994 (Ciba Foundation Symposium 187:179-197).

Czerniecki BJ. Bedrosian I. Tumor deprived peptide vaccines for treatment of Melanoma. The Melanoma Letter 15(3), 1997.

Czerniecki BJ. Nguyen H. Glatstein E. Fox K. Treatment of Hodgkin's and Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Chap. 15 in Torosian MH (ed): Integrated Cancer Management: Surgery, Medical Oncology and Radiation Therapy. New York: Marcel-Dekker, 1999, 360-393.

Bedrosian I. Czerniecki BJ. Tumor biology. In Kreisel D, Krupnick AS, Kaiser LR (eds): The Surgical Review. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2001, 69-90.

Patents
University of Pennsylvania Health System and Czerniecki BJ. Method for isolating dendritic cells: Preparing and activating dendritic cell rich antigen presenting cells from human peripheral blood. U.S. Patent awarded January 1997.

Czerniecki BJ. Tumor reactive cells: Their proliferation and use in adoptive cellular therapy: Determinations of lymph nodes enriched in CD4+ T-helper lymphocytes and their proliferation for use in adoptive immunotherapy. U.S. Patent awarded April 1998.

Czerniecki BJ. Method for increasing the antigen presenting ability of leukemia cells. US patent awarded March 2002.