Docetaxel and Sirolimus in Patients With Advanced Malignancies

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Patients with advanced or metastatic cancer that is refractory to standard therapy, relapsed after standard therapy, or who have no standard therapy available that improves survival by at least three months.
2. Patients must be at least 5 half-lives or three weeks, whichever is shorter, from their previous targeted or biologic therapy; patients must be at least three weeks beyond previous cytotoxic therapy. In addition, patients must be \>/= 3 weeks beyond previous therapeutic radiation or major surgery. Patients may have received palliative localized radiation immediately before or during treatment providing radiation is not delivered only to the site of disease being treated under this protocol. Terminal phase half life of docetaxel is 11.1 hours; sirolimus, 14.5 hours.
3. cont'd from criterion #2 Previous mTOR inhibitor (everolimus, temsirolimus, and sirolimus) and taxane (including paclitaxel, abraxane/ABI-007, and docetaxel) therapy is permitted.
4. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status \</= 3
5. Patients must have normal organ and marrow function defined as:absolute neutrophil count \>/= 1,000/mL; platelets \>/=50,000/mL; creatinine \</= 2 x upper limit of normal (ULN); total bilirubin \</= 3x ULN; ALT(SGPT) \</= 3 x ULN; cholesterol \</= 350 mg/dL; triglycerides \</= 400 mg/dL.
6. Women of child-bearing potential and men must agree to use adequate contraception (hormonal or barrier method of birth control; abstinence) prior to study entry, for the duration of study participation, and for 30 days after the last dose.
7. Patients must be able to understand and be willing to sign a written informed consent document.
8. Patients already on gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonist therapy (eg goserelin acetate, leuprolide acetate) for metastatic, castrate-resistant prostate cancer for three months prior to entry into this study may be continued on this intervention while enrolled in this protocol. Patients on somatostatin analogues (eg octreotide) for symptom control for three months prior to entry into this study may be continued on this intervention while enrolled in this protocol.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to, uncontrolled infection, uncontrolled asthma, need for hemodialysis, and need for ventilatory support.
2. Pregnant or lactating women.
3. History of hypersensitivity to docetaxel or any component of the formulation.
4. History of hypersensitivity to sirolimus or any component of the formulation
5. Patients maintained on medications that are strong inducers or inhibitors of CYP3A4 should have these medications discontinued prior to entry on study unless cessation of such medications would be detrimental to patient's health.
6. Patients unwilling or unable to sign informed consent document.