# OnCo record dcruz-anil (person). 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/people/dcruz-anil/>
  a schema:Person ;
  onco:kind "person" ;
  schema:identifier "dcruz-anil" ;
  schema:name "Anil K. D'Cruz"@en ;
  schema:description "Led the Tata Memorial trial that settled a decades-old question, showing that removing neck lymph nodes at the first operation for early oral cancer saves lives."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/people/dcruz-anil/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-10"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://www.apollohospitals.com>, <https://www.uicc.org>, <https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=D'Cruz%20AK%5BAuthor%5D%20Tata%20Memorial%20head%20and%20neck> ;
  schema:jobTitle "Head and neck surgical oncologist; former Director, Tata Memorial Hospital; Director of Oncology, Apollo Hospitals" ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/head-and-neck/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/sentinel-node/> ;
  onco:institutions <https://onco.cc/institutions/apollo-hospitals/>, <https://onco.cc/institutions/tata-memorial/> ;
  onco:trials <https://onco.cc/trials/elective-neck-dissection-tmh/> ;
  onco:keyPapers <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-dcruz-elective-neck-dissection-nejm-2015/> ;
  schema:affiliation <https://onco.cc/institutions/apollo-hospitals/> .