Intravenous VEGF Trap in Treating Patients With Relapsed or Refractory Advanced Solid Tumors or Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: * Histologically confirmed diagnosis of one of the following: * Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma * Primary or metastatic solid tumor located, by radiography, in at least one of the following sites: * Liver * Soft tissue * Pelvis * Other site that is suitable for delayed contrast-enhanced MRI (e.g., peripheral lung field) * Relapsed or refractory (including unresectable) disease * Patients with solid tumors must have failed all curative chemotherapeutic regimens * Patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma must be refractory to at least 2 standard chemotherapeutic regimens and rituximab * Not amenable to available conventional therapies AND no standard therapy exists * Measurable disease * No prior or concurrent CNS metastases (brain or leptomeningeal) * No primary intracranial tumor by MRI or CT scan * No histologically confirmed squamous cell carcinoma of the lung PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age * 18 and over Performance status * ECOG 0-2 Life expectancy * Not specified Hematopoietic * WBC ≥ 3,500/mm\^3 * Absolute neutrophil count ≥ 1,500/mm\^3 * Hemoglobin ≥ 9.0 g/dL * Platelet count ≥ 100,000/mm\^3 * No severe or uncontrolled hematologic condition Hepatic * Bilirubin ≤1.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN) * AST and ALT ≤ 2.5 times ULN * PT and PTT normal * INR normal * Hepatitis B surface antigen negative * Hepatitis C antibody negative Renal * Creatinine ≤ ULN * Urine protein/creatinine ratio ≤ 1 * No severe or uncontrolled r…