# OnCo record disseminated-tumor-cells (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/disseminated-tumor-cells/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  onco:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "disseminated-tumor-cells" ;
  schema:name "Disseminated tumour cells (DTCs)"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "disseminated tumour cell"@en ;
  schema:description "Single cancer cells that have already spread to distant organs, often found in bone marrow years before any metastasis appears."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/terms/disseminated-tumor-cells/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-08"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micrometastasis> ;
  schema:citation <https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa050434> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/mrd-testing/> ;
  onco:pathways <https://onco.cc/pathways/metastatic-cascade/>, <https://onco.cc/pathways/tumor-dormancy/> ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/mrd/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/late-recurrence/> ;
  onco:keyPapers <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-braun-n-engl-j-med/> .