# OnCo record cobalt-60-teletherapy (technology). 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/technologies/cobalt-60-teletherapy/>
  a schema:MedicalTherapy ;
  onco:kind "technology" ;
  schema:identifier "cobalt-60-teletherapy" ;
  schema:name "Cobalt-60 teletherapy"@en ;
  schema:description "The machine that made curative radiotherapy widely available from the 1950s: a sealed cobalt-60 source in a rotating head. Linacs replaced it in rich countries, but cobalt units still treat many patients where power and servicing are unreliable."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/technologies/cobalt-60-teletherapy/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-17"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt_therapy> ;
  onco:status "historic" ;
  onco:tag "radiation-wave1" ;
  onco:sections <https://onco.cc/fronts/radiation/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/imrt-igrt/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/global-oncology-access/> .