Chemotherapy for Patients With Advanced Solid Tumors or Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 1969-12-31
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purposes of this study are to determine:

• the largest dose of AQ4N that can be safely given once a week for three weeks out of a 4 week cycle

• the side effects of AQ4N when given on the above schedule

• how much AQ4N is in the blood and urine at specific times after administration and how the body get rids of AQ4N

• if AQ4N helps treat cancer

• Phase: Phase 1
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Novacea
• Treatments: AQ4N

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Advanced solid malignancy or non-Hodgkin's lymphoma that is refractory to treatment or has recurred

• Age > 18 years

• Adequate hematologic (blood), kidney and liver function

• Negative pregnancy test (females of childbearing potential only)

• Willingness to use effective contraception by both males and females throughout the treatment period and for at least 2 months following treatment.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Any chemotherapy or radiation within the past 4 weeks

• Symptomatic or uncontrolled brain metastases (patients with history of brain metastases who have had repeat brain scans within the past 30 days that demonstrate no evidence of tumor progression or brain swelling and who do not require corticosteriod treatment may be eligible)

• Significant cardiovascular illness including, but not limited to, the following:

active infection, uncontrolled hypertension, symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina pectoris, heart attack within the past six months, or uncontrolled, irregular heart beat

• Inadequate cardiac function

• Prior investigational therapy within the past 28 days

• Pregnant or breast feeding women