# OnCo record biopsy (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/biopsy/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  onco:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "biopsy" ;
  schema:name "Biopsy"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "biopsies"@en, "biopsied"@en, "tissue sample"@en, "tissue samples"@en, "core biopsy"@en, "needle biopsy"@en, "core needle biopsy"@en, "tissue biopsy"@en, "rebiopsy"@en, "re-biopsy"@en, "surgical biopsy"@en, "excisional biopsy"@en, "fine needle aspiration"@en, "FNA"@en ;
  schema:description "Taking a small piece of the suspicious tissue so a pathologist can examine it under the microscope. It is the only way to confirm a cancer diagnosis and to learn its type and markers."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/terms/biopsy/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-09"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biopsy> ;
  owl:sameAs <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q179991> ;
  schema:citation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biopsy> ;
  onco:related <https://onco.cc/terms/histology/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/ihc/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/genomic-profiling/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/ctdna/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/lesion/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/biomarker/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/histopathology-ihc/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/liquid-biopsy/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/cgp/> .