# OnCo record afp (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 owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/terms/afp/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  onco:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "afp" ;
  schema:name "Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP)"@en ;
  schema:description "Alpha-fetoprotein is a protein made by the fetal liver that a substantial share of hepatocellular carcinomas switch back on. It is measured in blood alongside ultrasound for surveillance, for prognosis, and to select patients for ramucirumab, but it also rises in hepatitis flares and germ-cell tumours."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/terms/afp/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-07"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha-fetoprotein> ;
  owl:sameAs <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q306076> ;
  schema:citation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha-fetoprotein> ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/hcc/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/hcc-surveillance/> .