# OnCo record afirma (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/afirma/>
  a schema:Drug ;
  onco:kind "drug" ;
  schema:identifier "afirma" ;
  schema:name "Afirma Genomic Sequencing Classifier"@en ;
  schema:description "A gene test on the needle sample from a thyroid lump that can safely call an 'uncertain' result benign and spare an operation."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/drugs/afirma/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-10"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://doi.org/10.1001/jamasurg.2018.1153>, <https://www.afirma.com> ;
  onco:status "established" ;
  onco:tag "test" ;
  onco:modality "RNA-sequencing rule-out classifier test (indeterminate thyroid nodules)" ;
  schema:alternateName "Afirma GSC" ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/thyroid/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/thyroid-fna-molecular/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/rna-seq/> ;
  onco:companies <https://onco.cc/companies/veracyte/> ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/sensitivity-specificity/> ;
  onco:keyPapers <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-patel-jama-surg/> .