aurora kinase inhibitor at9283 in treating patients with advanced or metastatic solid tumors or non-hodgkin's lymphoma

Conditions: Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma; Unspecified Adult Solid Tumor, Protocol Specific

Summary: rationale: aurora kinase inhibitor at9283 (at9283) may stop the growth of cancer cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth. purpose: this phase i trial is studying the side effects and best dose of at9283 in treating patients with advanced or metastatic solid tumors or non-hodgkin's lymphoma.

objectives: * determine the maximum tolerated dose and recommended phase ii dose of aurora kinase inhibitor at9283 (at9283) in patients with incurable advanced or metastatic solid tumors or non-hodgkin's lymphoma. * determine the safety, tolerability, toxicity profile, dose-limiting toxicity, and pharmacokinetic profile of this drug in these patients. * correlate the toxicity profile with the pharmacokinetics of this drug in these patients. * assess, preliminarily, evidence of antitumor activity of this drug in these patients. * determine the pharmacodynamic activity of this drug in these patients and correlate with biological endpoints. outline: this is an open-label, dose-escalation, multicenter study. patients receive aurora kinase inhibitor at9283 (at9283) iv over 24 hours on days 1 and 8 . treatment repeats every 3 weeks in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. cohorts of 3-6 patients receive escalating doses of at9283 until the maximum tolerated dose (mtd) is determined. the mtd is defined as the dose at which at least 2 of 3 or 2 of 6 patients experience dose-limiting toxicity. the dose preceding the mtd is the recommended phase ii dose (rptd). up to 8 additional patients are treated at the rptd. patients treated at the rptd undergo skin and tumor tissue biopsy and blood collection at baseline and on days 2 and/or 3. samples are examined by pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic analysis, including immunohistochemistry, immunocytochemistry, western blotting, immunoenzyme techniques, flow cytometry, and reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction, for biological markers. after completion of study treatment, patients are followed at 4 weeks and then every 3 months until disease progression. projected accrual: up to 30 patients will be accrued for this study.

Eligibility criteria:
disease characteristics: * histologically or cytologically confirmed diagnosis of 1 of the following: * advanced and/or metastatic solid tumor * advanced or metastatic non-hodgkin's lymphoma refractory to standard therapy * clinically or radiologically documented disease * no tumor marker elevation as only evidence of disease * no untreated brain or meningeal metastases * treated and stable brain metastases allowed provided they are asymptomatic and do not require steroids patient characteristics: * ecog performance status 0-2 * absolute granulocyte count ≥ 1,500/mm³ * platelet count ≥ 100,000/mm³ * creatinine ≤ 1.25 times upper limit of normal (uln) or creatinine clearance ≥ 50 ml/min * bilirubin normal * alt and ast ≤ 2 times uln (≤5 times uln if liver metastases are present) * not pregnant or nursing * negative pregnancy test * fertile patients must use two effective methods of contraception * no untreated or uncontrolled hypertension, cardiovascular conditions, or symptomatic cardiac dysfunction * no active or uncontrolled infections * no serious illness or medical condition that would preclude study treatment prior concurrent therapy: * at least 2 weeks since prior major surgery and recovered * at least 3 weeks since prior palliative radiotherapy and recovered * low-dose, nonmyelosuppressive radiotherapy may be allowed * at least 3 weeks since prior chemotherapy for solid tumors and recovered * no more than 2 prior cytotoxic chemotherapy regimens for metastatic disease * at least 4 weeks since prior steroids * no limitations on prior therapy for patients with non-hodgkin's lymphoma * prior hormonal, immunologic, biologic or signal transduction inhibitor therapy allowed * no other concurrent investigational agents * no other concurrent anticancer therapy

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