| Inclusion Criteria: | 1) Written informed consent obtained prior to any screening procedures
2) Age >/= 18 years old
3) Patients with biopsy-confirmed mycosis fungoides or Sézary syndrome stages IB-IVA. Patients who have SS with bone marrow involvement are also eligible. Patients with transformed CTCL are eligible. Disease stage for eligibility is based on the stage at time of study enrollment. However, patients with any history of visceral involvement due to CTCL will not be eligible for this study.
4) Patients must have received at least two prior systemic therapy regimens. Systemic regimens include oral bexarotene, PUVA, photophoresis, oral corticosteroids, total skin electron beam, immunotherapy, chemotherapy such as methotrexate, and biological response modifiers such as and interferon. Topical steroids alone are not considered as a treatment regimen.
5) Patients must have had disease progression on or following their most recent treatment regimen. Patients are also eligible if they had an inadequate response to their most recent treatment regimen defined as stable disease as the best response after at least 3 months of therapy.
6) Patients will be accrued to one of two groups:Group 1 - Patients previously treated with oral bexarotene. This group includes patients who had disease progression on or following treatment oral bexarotene, or an inadequate response to oral bexarotene treatment defined as stable disease as the best response after at least 3 months of treatment, or intolerance of oral bexoratene defined as patients who discontinued oral bexoratene treatment due to adverse events.Group 2: Patients who have not had prior oral bexarotene treatment.
7) Patients with an absolute neutrophil count (ANC) >/= 1.5 x 10^9/L, Hemoglobin (Hgb) >/= 9 g/dl, Platelets (plt) >/= 100 x 10^9/L, Serum potassium >/= the lower limit of normal (LLN), Serum total calcium (corrected for serum albumin) or ionized calcium >/= LLN, Serum magnesium >/= LLN, Serum phosphorus >/= LLN, AST/SGOT and ALT/SGPT </= 2.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN)
8) Patients with serum bilirubin </= 1.5 x ULN, Serum creatinine </= 1.5 x ULN, TSH and free T4 within normal limit (WNL) (patients may be on thyroid hormone replacement), Albumin > 3g/dL Potassium, calcium, magnesium & phosphorus supplements may be given to correct values that are < LLN, but there must be documented as corrected prior to patients enrolling on the study.For group 1 patients only: If the patient was previously treated with oral bexarotene and on thyroid hormone replacement, patient is eligible if TSH<LLN but free T4 must be within normal limit (WNL).
9) Baseline MUGA or ECHO must demonstrate LVEF >/= the lower limit of the institutional normal
10) ECOG Performance Status </= 2 |