Phenylbutyrate Plus Azacitidine in Treating Patients With Acute Myeloid Leukemia, Myelodysplasia, Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Multiple Myeloma, Non-small Cell Lung Cancer, or Prostate Cancer

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2003-08-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop cancer cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Combining more than one chemotherapy drug may kill more cancer cells.

PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of phenylbutyrate plus azacitidine in treating patients who have acute myeloid leukemia, myelodysplasia, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, multiple myeloma, non-small cell lung cancer, or prostate cancer.

• Phase: Phase 2
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
• Collaborator: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
• Treatments: 4-phenylbutyric acid; Azacitidine

Criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

• Diagnosis of one of the following neoplastic diseases:

• Acute myeloid leukemia

• Myelodysplasia

• Low or intermediate grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma

• Multiple myeloma

• Non-small cell lung cancer

• Prostate cancer

• Failed prior conventional therapy and no other known curative therapy exists

• Patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, non-small cell lung cancer, and prostate cancer must have tumor cells in bone marrow or malignant effusions that are accessible for bone marrow aspiration or paracentesis/thoracentesis NOTE: A new classification scheme for adult non-Hodgkin's lymphoma has been adopted by PDQ. The terminology of "indolent" or "aggressive" lymphoma will replace the former terminology of "low", "intermediate", or "high" grade lymphoma. However, this protocol uses the former terminology.

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age:

• 18 and over

Performance status:

• Karnofsky 60-100%

Life expectancy:

• Not specified

Hematopoietic:

• Patients without leukemia or myeloma:

• WBC at least 2,500/mm^3

• Platelet count at least 75,000/mm^3

Hepatic:

• Bilirubin no greater than 2.5 mg/dL

Renal:

• Creatinine no greater than 2.5 mg/dL

Other:

• Not pregnant or nursing

• Negative pregnancy test

• Fertile patients must use effective contraception during and for 4 weeks after study

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy:

• Not specified

Chemotherapy:

• Patients without leukemia:

• At least 3 weeks since prior cytotoxic chemotherapy

Endocrine therapy:

• Not specified

Radiotherapy:

• Patients without leukemia:

• At least 3 weeks since prior radiotherapy

Surgery:

• Not specified