# OnCo record downstaging (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/downstaging/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  onco:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "downstaging" ;
  schema:name "Downstaging and conversion therapy"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "downstaged"@en, "downstage"@en, "down-staging"@en, "conversion therapy"@en, "conversion chemotherapy"@en, "conversion to resectable"@en, "tumour shrinkage"@en, "tumour downsizing"@en, "downsizing"@en, "within Milan criteria after downstaging"@en, "bridging to transplant"@en ;
  schema:description "Using drugs, radiotherapy or embolisation to shrink a cancer from a stage where curative treatment is impossible to one where it is: for example, shrinking liver metastases until they can be cut out, or liver cancer until it fits transplant criteria."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/terms/downstaging/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-09"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoadjuvant_therapy> ;
  schema:citation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoadjuvant_therapy> ;
  onco:related <https://onco.cc/terms/resectability/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/bclc-staging/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/tace/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/neoadjuvant-adjuvant/> ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/hcc/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/colorectal/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/pancreatic/> ;
  onco:sections <https://onco.cc/fronts/surgery/>, <https://onco.cc/fronts/chemotherapy/> .