Neoprobe Submits New Drug Application for Lymphoseek

Neoprobe Corporation

today announced it has submitted a New Drug Application for Lymphoseek® (tilmanocept) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Neoprobe seeks clearance to market Lymphoseek in the United States for use in Intraoperative Lymphatic Mapping, a surgical oncology procedure in which lymph nodes draining the area around a tumor are identified and biopsied to determine if cancer has spread to the lymph nodes. In the U.S. today, ILM is performed primarily for patients with breast cancer and melanoma. According to the American Cancer Society, approximately 209,000 new cases of breast cancer and 68,000 new cases of melanoma were diagnosed in the United States in 2010.i