Inclusion Criteria:
- Histologically confirmed* solid tumor, including any of the following:
- Ewing's sarcoma/peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumor (PNET)
- Osteosarcoma
- Rhabdomyosarcoma
- Neuroblastoma
- High-grade astrocytoma
- Low-grade astrocytoma
- Glioblastoma multiforme
- Ependymoma
- Hepatoblastoma
- Germ cell tumors of any site
- Rare tumors of interest, including any of the following:
- Soft tissue sarcoma
- Hepatocellular carcinoma
- Childhood/adolescent colorectal carcinoma
- Childhood/adolescent renal cell carcinoma
- Childhood/adolescent adrenocortical carcinoma
- Childhood/adolescent nasopharyngeal carcinoma
- Recurrent disease OR refractory to conventional therapy
- Measurable disease by clinical exam, CT scan, MRI, or positron emission tomography
- Performance status - Karnofsky 50-100% (for patients over age 10)
- Performance status - Lansky 50-100% (for patients age 10 and under)
- At least 8 weeks
- Absolute neutrophil count ≥ 1,000/mm^3*
- Platelet count ≥ 75,000/mm^3* (transfusion independent)
- Hemoglobin ≥ 8.0 g/dL* (RBC transfusions allowed)
- Granulocytopenia, anemia, and/or thrombocytopenia due to bone marrow metastases or
extensive prior radiotherapy allowed provided the above hematological criteria are
met
- Bilirubin ≤ 3 mg/dL
- Creatinine based on age as follows:
- ≤ .8 mg/dL (for patients age 5 and under)
- ≤ 1.0 mg/dL (for patients age 6 to 10)
- ≤ 1.2 mg/dL (for patients age 11 to 15)
- ≤1.5 mg/dL (for patients age 16 to 21)
- Creatinine clearance or radioisotope glomerular filtration rate > 20 mL/min
- No uncontrolled seizure disorder
- No uncontrolled infection
- CNS toxicity ≤ grade 2
- Not pregnant or nursing
- Negative pregnancy test
- Fertile patients must use effective contraception
- Recovered from prior immunotherapy
- At least 7 days since prior anticancer biologic therapy
- More than 1 week since prior growth factors
- At least 6 months since prior allogeneic stem cell transplantation
- No evidence of active graft-vs-host disease
- No concurrent immunomodulating agents
- Recovered from prior chemotherapy
- No prior oxaliplatin
- Prior carboplatin or cisplatin allowed
- More than 3 weeks since prior myelosuppressive chemotherapy (6 weeks for
nitrosoureas)
- No other concurrent anticancer chemotherapy
- Concurrent dexamethasone for CNS tumors allowed provided patient has been on a stable
or decreasing dose for ≥ 1 week before study entry
- Recovered from prior radiotherapy
- At least 2 weeks since prior local palliative radiotherapy (small port)
- At least 6 months since prior craniospinal radiotherapy
- At least 6 months since prior radiotherapy to ≥ 50% of the pelvis
- At least 6 weeks since other prior substantial radiotherapy to the bone marrow
- Concurrent radiotherapy to localized painful lesions allowed provided ≥ 1 measurable
lesion is not irradiated
- No other concurrent investigational agents
- No other concurrent anticancer agents