- Uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to: ongoing or active infection requiring parenteral antibiotics, symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina pectoris, angioplasty, stenting or myocardial infarction within 6 months, uncontrolled hypertension, clinically significant cardiac arrhythmia, psychiatric illness/social situations that would compromise patient safety or limit compliance with study requirements, patients with symptomatic brain metastases