| Exclusion Criteria: | 1) Use of any other standard (e.g. hydroxyurea, anagrelide, growth factors) or experimental drug or therapy within 14 days or 5-half lives, whichever is longer, of starting study therapy and/or lack of recovery from all toxicity from previous therapy to grade 1 or better.
2) Known prior clinically relevant hypersensitivity reaction to thalidomide, including the development of erythema nodosum if characterized by a desquamating rash.
3) Prior therapy with lenalidomide or ruxolitinib.
4) Any serious medical condition, laboratory abnormality, or psychiatric illness that would prevent the subject from signing the informed consent form.
5) Suspected Pregnancy, Pregnant or lactating females.
6) Any condition, including the presence of laboratory abnormalities, which places the subject at unacceptable risk if he/she were to participate in the study or confounds the ability to interpret data from the study.
7) Known positive for HIV or infectious hepatitis, type A, B or C.
8) Known prior clinically relevant hypersensitivity to prednisone.
9) Participants with prior history of thromboembolic disease (i.e. deep venous thrombosis (DVT) or pulmonary embolism (PE) within the last six months, as Lenalidomide has demonstrated a significantly increased risk of DVT or PE.
10) Known to have a hypercoagulability syndrome (eg: antithrombin III, deficiency, anticardiolipin syndrome etc…)
11) Concurrent use of strong inducers or strong inhibitors of CYP3A4 (strong inducers are rifampin and St. John's Worth, carbamazepine, phenytoin, and barbiturates such as phenobarbital; strong inhibitors are HIV-antivirals, clarythromycin, itraconazole, ketoconazole, nefadozone, and telithromycin).
12) Incarcerated persons are excluded from the protocol. |