# OnCo record drug-eluting-beads (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/drug-eluting-beads/>
  a schema:MedicalTherapy ;
  onco:kind "technology" ;
  schema:identifier "drug-eluting-beads" ;
  schema:name "Drug-eluting beads for chemoembolisation (DC Bead, LC Bead, HepaSphere, ONCOZENE, CalliSpheres, LifePearl)"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "DEB-TACE"@en, "Drug-eluting bead"@en, "Drug-loadable microspheres"@en, "DC Bead"@en, "LC Bead LUMI"@en, "DEBDOX"@en, "DEBIRI"@en, "HepaSphere"@en, "QuadraSphere"@en, "ONCOZENE"@en, "CalliSpheres"@en, "LifePearl"@en, "Tandem"@en ;
  schema:description "Beads that soak up a chemotherapy drug before they are injected into the liver's arteries, then block the tumour's blood supply and release the drug slowly inside it. In a randomised trial they did not beat the older oil-based method overall, though some groups of patients responded better."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/technologies/drug-eluting-beads/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-11-04"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://www.bostonscientific.com/en-EU/products/embolics/dc-bead.html>, <https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfpmn/pmn.cfm?ID=K162373>, <https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfpmn/pmn.cfm?ID=K172372>, <https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfpmn/pmn.cfm?ID=K242794>, <https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfpmn/pmn.cfm?ID=K173871>, <https://doi.org/10.1007/s00270-009-9711-7>, <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvir.2016.05.015> ;
  onco:status "standard-of-care" ;
  onco:tag "devices-gaps-2026-11" ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/hcc/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/colorectal/> ;
  onco:sections <https://onco.cc/fronts/surgery/>, <https://onco.cc/fronts/chemotherapy/>, <https://onco.cc/fronts/devices/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/tace/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/embolic-microspheres/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/tace-delivery-microcatheters/> ;
  onco:drugs <https://onco.cc/drugs/doxorubicin/>, <https://onco.cc/drugs/irinotecan/>, <https://onco.cc/drugs/ethiodized-oil/> ;
  onco:companies <https://onco.cc/companies/boston-scientific/>, <https://onco.cc/companies/varian/> ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/tace-term/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/liver-directed-therapy/> .