Navidea Biopharmaceuticals Announces Presentation of Lymphoseek® Phase 3 Data at Society of Surgical Oncology Meeting

DUBLIN, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Navidea Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE Amex: NAVB), a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on precision diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals, today announced that data from its Phase 3 clinical study investigating 99m-Tc-Tilmanocept (Lymphoseek®) in oral and squamous cell cancers (SCC) were presented as a poster presentation at the 65th Annual Cancer Symposium of the Society of Surgical Oncology (SSO) meeting held in Orlando, Florida, March 21-24, 2012. The data presented by investigator Stephen Y. Lai, M.D., Ph.D., FACS, of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, describe the Center’s initial experience with Lymphoseek in Sentinel Lymph Node (SLN) mapping in nine patients with head and neck SCC (HNSCC).