It is used for the treatment of: • advanced AIDS-related Kaposi’ s sarcoma (a skin cancer often found in AIDS patients), when treatment with anthracyclines (another type of anticancer medicines) has been tried but failed, • metastatic breast cancer (breast cancer that has spread to other parts of the body), when other treatments have been tried but failed, or cannot be used, • advanced cancer of the ovary, in combination with cisplatin (another anticancer drug), • metastatic cancer of the ovary, when other treatments (such as platinum-containing combination therapy) have been tried but failed, • non-small cell lung cancer, in combination with cisplatin, when patients cannot have surgery and/ or radiation therapy.