# OnCo record aminolevulinic-acid-gleolan (drug). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
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<https://onco.cc/drugs/aminolevulinic-acid-gleolan/>
  a schema:Drug ;
  onco:kind "drug" ;
  schema:identifier "aminolevulinic-acid-gleolan" ;
  schema:name "5-Aminolevulinic acid (oral, for glioma surgery)"@en ;
  schema:description "A drink taken before brain surgery that makes high-grade glioma glow under blue light, letting surgeons remove more tumour safely."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/drugs/aminolevulinic-acid-gleolan/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-08"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aminolevulinic_acid> ;
  owl:sameAs <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q238474> ;
  schema:citation <https://doi.org/10.1016/S1470-2045(06)70665-9>, <https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/search.cfm?labeltype=all&query=Gleolan> ;
  onco:status "approved" ;
  onco:tag "gap-fill", "diagnostic" ;
  onco:modality "Fluorescence-guided surgery agent (protoporphyrin IX precursor)" ;
  schema:alternateName "Gleolan / Gliolan" ;
  onco:approval "EU 2007: Visualisation of malignant tissue during surgery for WHO grade III-IV glioma", "US 2017: Imaging agent for visualisation of malignant tissue during glioma surgery (suspected high-grade)" ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/glioblastoma/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/fluorescence-guided-surgery/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/optical-imaging/> ;
  onco:companies <https://onco.cc/companies/photonamic/> ;
  onco:trials <https://onco.cc/trials/nct05804370/> ;
  onco:keyPapers <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-stummer-lancet-oncol/> .