Inclusion Criteria:

- Histologically confirmed epithelial ovarian, primary peritoneal, or fallopian tube
carcinoma

- Persistent or recurrent disease

- No borderline ovarian tumors, ovarian germ cell tumors, ovarian sex-cord stromal
tumors, or other non-epithelial ovarian tumors

- Must have had >= 1 prior platinum-based (cisplatin or carboplatin) chemotherapy
regimen for the management of primary disease

- Intraperitoneal chemotherapy allowed

- Platinum-refractory or -resistant meeting 1 of the following criteria:

- Progression of disease during platinum-based chemotherapy

- Persistent disease at the completion of platinum-based chemotherapy

- Less than 6 months of disease-free interval after completion of platinum-based
therapy

- Measurable disease

- Archived tissue available from the original tumor debulking surgery for assessment of
BRCA1 protein expression

- ECOG performance status 0-2

- Life expectancy > 3 months

- WBC >= 3,000/mm^3

- ANC >= 1,500/mm^3

- Platelet count >= 100,000/mm^3

- Total bilirubin normal

- AST and ALT =< 2.5 times upper limit of normal

- Creatinine =< 1.5 mg/dL OR creatinine clearance >= 60 mL/min

- Negative pregnancy test

- Fertile patients must use effective contraception during and for >= 3 months after
completion of study therapy

- No uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to, any of the
following:

- Ongoing active infection

- Symptomatic congestive heart failure

- Unstable angina pectoris

- Uncontrolled cardiac arrhythmia

- Psychiatric illness and/or social situations that would limit compliance with
the study requirements

- No prior malignancy except cervical carcinoma in situ, ductal carcinoma in situ of
the breast, nonmelanoma skin cancer, or curatively treated malignancy without
evidence of disease within the past 3 years

- No baseline organ dysfunction or symptoms that qualify as >= grade 2 by CTEP CTCAE v
4.0

- Alopecia or other situations in which the organ dysfunction or symptoms are
considered clinically insignificant or irrelevant to the study allowed

- No other concurrent chemotherapy, immunotherapy, hormonal cancer therapy,
radiotherapy, or surgery for cancer (including resection of metastases)

- No more than 3 prior treatment regimens for epithelial ovarian, primary peritoneal,
or fallopian tube carcinoma

- Consolidation or maintenance therapy initiated within 6 weeks after the
completion of primary therapy will not be counted as an additional regimen

- At least 4 weeks since prior chemotherapy (6 weeks for nitrosoureas or mitomycin C),
radiotherapy, or surgery and recovered

- No prior radiotherapy to > 25% of the bone marrow

- No prior SJG-136 or related compounds

- No other concurrent investigational agents

- No concurrent palliative radiotherapy