# OnCo record blasts (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/blasts/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  onco:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "blasts" ;
  schema:name "Blasts (leukaemic blast cells)"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "blast count"@en, "blast percentage"@en, "leukaemic blasts"@en, "leukemic blasts"@en, "myeloblasts"@en, "lymphoblasts"@en, "blast crisis"@en, "blast phase"@en, "excess blasts"@en, "circulating blasts"@en ;
  schema:description "Immature blood cells that should mature in the marrow but in acute leukaemia multiply without growing up. The percentage of blasts in the marrow defines the disease: 20% or more is acute leukaemia."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/terms/blasts/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-09"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blast_cell> ;
  schema:citation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blast_cell> ;
  onco:related <https://onco.cc/terms/flow-cytometry/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/mds/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/complete-response-term/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/philadelphia-chromosome/> ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/aml/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/all-leukemia/> ;
  onco:sections <https://onco.cc/fronts/diagnostics/> .