Study of CP-383 in Patients With Advanced or Metastatic Solid Tumors

Inclusion Criteria: * Measurable or non measurable cancer that the research can assess for changes * Not eligible or able to take existing standard therapies for cancer * Availability of a part of a tumor for laboratory testing or willing to have a safe biopsy taken from a tumor * Diagnosed with locally advanced, recurrent or metastatic incurable disease * Part 1: any solid tumor (with the exception of brain cancer) that has progressed, standard therapy is no longer or has not helped the cancer, or is too toxic and for whom a clinical trial is an option for continued treatment * Part 1: specific advanced, metastatic tumor types will also be enrolled: colorectal cancer, small cell lung cancer, head and neck cancer, non-small cell lung cancer, pancreatic cancer, bladder cancer - some of these will have a specific gene mutation in the cancer * Part 1: selected solid tumor cancer types (with the exception of brain cancers) that have a specific gene mutation in the cancer * Part 2: specific advanced, metastatic tumor types will also be enrolled: colorectal cancer, small cell lung cancer, head and neck cancer - some of these will have a specific gene mutation in the cancer \_ Part 2: selected solid tumor cancer types (with the exception of brain cancers) that have a specific gene mutation in the cancer * Adequate blood and urine lab tests * Women and men of childbearing potential with adequate contraception * Provides written informed consent * Willing to comply with the requirements of the protocol Exclusion Criteria: * Inability to swallow pills * Known history of HIV, HCV, HBV unless cured, controlled with undetectable viral load * Active tumor in the brain * Clinically significant liver disease * Significant gastrointestinal diseases * History of other cancer within past 5 years with certain exceptions for cancers that are likely cured * Significant cardiac disease * Other diseases that are not well controlled that could make taking the drug unsafe * pregnant or lactating females * Exposure to certain anti-cancer or other drugs within a certain period before the start of study drug