# OnCo record asbestos (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/asbestos/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  onco:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "asbestos" ;
  schema:name "Asbestos"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "asbestos exposure"@en, "asbestos fibres"@en, "amphibole asbestos"@en, "chrysotile"@en, "occupational asbestos"@en ;
  schema:description "A mineral once used everywhere in building, whose fibres lodge in the lung when they are breathed in and cause cancer decades later. It causes both mesothelioma, the cancer of the lining around the lung, and lung cancer itself, and the two are different diseases with different pathways."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/terms/asbestos/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-25"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbestos> ;
  schema:citation <https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/health-professional/cancer-statistics/statistics-by-cancer-type/lung-cancer/risk-factors>, <https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng12/chapter/Recommendations-organised-by-site-of-cancer> ;
  onco:tag "lung" ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/lung-cancer/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/nsclc/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/mesothelioma/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/pleural-mesothelioma/> ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/radon/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/never-smoker-lung-cancer/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/smoking-cessation/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/pleura/> .