# OnCo record active-surveillance-term (term). 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/terms/active-surveillance-term/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  onco:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "active-surveillance-term" ;
  schema:name "Active surveillance and observation"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "active surveillance"@en, "watchful waiting"@en, "expectant management"@en, "surveillance MRI"@en, "imaging surveillance"@en, "surveillance imaging"@en, "wait-and-see"@en, "surveillance strategy"@en, "post-treatment surveillance"@en, "follow-up imaging"@en ;
  schema:description "Deliberately not treating a cancer yet, but checking it regularly with blood tests, scans or biopsies and treating only if it shows signs of progressing. Standard for low-risk prostate cancer, small kidney masses and several other slow conditions."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/terms/active-surveillance-term/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-09"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_surveillance_of_prostate_cancer> ;
  schema:citation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_surveillance_of_prostate_cancer> ;
  onco:related <https://onco.cc/technologies/active-surveillance/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/gleason-grade-group/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/dcis/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/smoldering-myeloma/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/organ-preservation/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/watchful-waiting/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/cambridge-prognostic-group/> ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/prostate/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/rcc/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/thyroid/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/cll/> ;
  onco:sections <https://onco.cc/fronts/diagnostics/> ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/watchful-waiting/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/cambridge-prognostic-group/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/percentage-gleason-pattern-4/> ;
  onco:trials <https://onco.cc/trials/protect/>, <https://onco.cc/trials/sano/> .