# OnCo record acitretin (drug). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
@prefix schema: <https://schema.org/> .
@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/drugs/acitretin/>
  a schema:Drug ;
  onco:kind "drug" ;
  schema:identifier "acitretin" ;
  schema:name "Acitretin"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "Neotigason"@en, "Soriatane" ;
  schema:description "Acitretin is a vitamin A tablet licensed for severe psoriasis. In people who have had an organ transplant and keep developing skin cancers, it reduces the number of new squamous cell carcinomas while it is taken."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/drugs/acitretin/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-17"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acitretin> ;
  schema:citation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acitretin> ;
  onco:status "approved" ;
  onco:tag "subtype-drugs-wave" ;
  onco:modality "Oral systemic retinoid" ;
  onco:approval "US 1996: Severe psoriasis (oncology use as chemoprevention of squamous cell carcinoma is off-label)" ;
  onco:related <https://onco.cc/drugs/nicotinamide/> ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/cutaneous-scc/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/chemoprevention/> ;
  onco:targets <https://onco.cc/targets/rara/>, <https://onco.cc/targets/rxr/> .