Lead Sponsor

Novartis Pharmaceuticals

Age

18 - No limit years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

•18 years of age or older
•World Health Organization (WHO) Performance Status score of: 0 - you are fully active and more or less as you were before your illness; 1 - you cannot carry out heavy physical work, but can do anything else; or 2 - you are up and about more than half the day, you can look after yourself, but are not well enough to work.
•Life expectancy of 3 months or more
•Patients with measurable or evaluable disease who have histologically documented advanced solid tumor and who have progressed after systemic therapy or for whom standard systemic therapy does not exist

•Severe and/or uncontrolled medical disease
•Known diagnosis of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection
•Presence of any other active or suspected acute or chronic uncontrolled infection
•Severe cardiac insufficiency, with uncontrolled and/or unstable cardiac or coronary artery disease
•History of another malignancy within 5 years prior to study entry, except for curatively treated non-melanotic skin cancer or cervical cancer in situ