Dasatinib in Treating Patients With Solid Tumors or Lymphomas That Are Metastatic or Cannot Be Removed By Surgery

Patients must not be taking H2-receptor antagonists such as cimetidine, ranitidine, and famotidine, or any proton pump inhibitors, such as omeprazole, lansoprazole, esomeprazole, and pantoprazole; patients must stop these medications within 7 days prior to starting treatment

Patients must not have had anticancer therapy including chemotherapy, radiotherapy, immunotherapy, or investigational agent within 4 weeks prior to registration, except for targeted agents with half-life known to be \< 24 hours; patients must not have had targeted agents with half-life \< 24 hours within 2 weeks prior to registration; patients also must have recovered from serious adverse events due to agents administered within these acceptable time frames

Patients must not be planning to receive concurrent radiation, other chemotherapy, immune therapy or any other investigational agents for malignancy while receiving protocol treatment; hormonal treatment for prostate carcinoma may be continued and bisphosphonate treatment for bone disease is permitted

Patient must not have received prior therapy with dasatinib (BMS-354825)

Patients must not have had major surgical procedures within the last 4 weeks prior to the first planned dose of study drug

Patients must not be taking therapeutic doses of anticoagulants; low dose warfarin for port prophylaxis is permitted

Zubrod performance status of 0-2

Patients may not have any clinically significant cardiovascular disease including the following:

* Myocardial infarction or ventricular tachyarrhythmia within 6 months

* Prolonged corrected QT interval (QTc) \>= 480 msec (Fridericia correction)

* Ejection fraction less than institutional normal

* Major conduction abnormality (unless a cardiac pacemaker is present)

* Patients with any cardiopulmonary symptoms of unknown cause (e.g. shortness of breath, chest pain, etc.) should be evaluated by a baseline echocardiogram with or without stress test as needed in addition to electrocardiogram (EKG) to rule out QTc prolongation; the patient may be referred to a cardiologist at the discretion of the principal investigator; patients with underlying cardiopulmonary dysfunction should be excluded from the study

Absolute neutrophil count \>= 1.5 x 10\^9/L

Platelets \>= 100 x 10\^9/L

Magnesium \>= lower limit of normal (LLN)

Potassium \>= LLN

Creatinine =\< 1.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN) OR calculated creatinine clearance \>= 60 mL/min/1.73 m\^2; if less than the normal range, supplementation should be initiated in the manner deemed appropriate by the treating physician

Patients with abnormal liver function are eligible and will be grouped according to the criteria; no distinction will be made between liver dysfunction due to metastases and liver dysfunction due to other causes; for patient registration, liver function tests (total bilirubin, aspartate aminotransferase \[AST\]/alanine aminotransferase \[ALT\], prothrombin time \[PT\]/international normalized ratio \[INR\] and partial thromboplastin time \[PTT\], and alkaline phosphatase) must be performed within 14 days prior to registration; for patient stratification, liver function tests must be performed within 72 hours of anticipated starting time of protocol treatment; patients must be stratified and treated based on the liver function tests performed within 72 hours prior to treatment; the South West Oncology Group (SWOG) Data Operations Center must be notified in writing in cases where the patient's cycle 1 pre-treatment liver function tests result in stratification to a dysfunction group different from how the patient was classified at registration

Patients with biliary obstruction for which a shunt has been placed are eligible, provided the liver function tests have stabilized (two measurements at least two days apart that put the patient in the same hepatic dysfunction stratum will be accepted as evidence of stable hepatic function); there must be no evidence of biliary sepsis and at least 2 weeks must have elapsed after the placement of a biliary shunt

Patients must not be pregnant or nursing; women/men of reproductive potential must have agreed to use an effective contraceptive method; since interaction with dasatinib and oral contraceptives is possible, a barrier method should be used and oral contraceptives are not permitted; a negative pregnancy test is required within 72 hours prior to starting therapy for women of reproductive potential; a woman is considered to be of "reproductive potential" if she has had menses at any time in the preceding 12 consecutive months; in addition to routine contraceptive methods, "effective contraception" also includes heterosexual celibacy and surgery intended to prevent pregnancy (or with a side-effect of pregnancy prevention) defined as a hysterectomy, bilateral oophorectomy or bilateral tubal ligation; however, if at any point a previously celibate patient chooses to become heterosexually active during the time period for use of contraceptive measures outlined in the protocol, he/she is responsible for beginning contraceptive measures

Patients must not have active gastrointestinal bleeding

Patients must be willing to undergo pharmacokinetic sampling

Patients or their legally authorized representative must be informed of the investigational nature of this study and must sign and give written informed consent in accordance with institutional and federal guidelines

At the time of patient registration, the treating institution's name and identification (ID) number must be provided to the Statistical Center in order to ensure that the current (within 365 days) date of institutional review board approval for this study has been entered into the data base

What this study is about