# OnCo record bethesda-category (term). 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/terms/bethesda-category/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  onco:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "bethesda-category" ;
  schema:name "Bethesda category (thyroid cytology)"@en ;
  schema:description "The Bethesda category is a six-step scale, from 'not enough cells' to 'cancer', that pathologists use to report a thyroid needle biopsy."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/terms/bethesda-category/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-07"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethesda_System_for_Reporting_Thyroid_Cytopathology> ;
  schema:citation <https://doi.org/10.1089/thy.2023.0141> ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/thyroid/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/thyroid-fna-molecular/> ;
  onco:keyPapers <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-ali-thyroid/> .