# OnCo record dysplasia (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/dysplasia/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  onco:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "dysplasia" ;
  schema:name "Dysplasia (pre-cancerous change)"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "dysplastic"@en, "high-grade dysplasia"@en, "low-grade dysplasia"@en, "atypical hyperplasia"@en, "atypia"@en, "intraepithelial neoplasia"@en, "CIN"@en, "premalignant"@en, "pre-malignant"@en, "precancerous"@en, "pre-cancerous"@en, "precursor lesion"@en, "precursor lesions"@en ;
  schema:description "Abnormal-looking cells in a surface lining that are not yet cancer but are on the way. Finding and removing dysplasia (cervical smears, Barrett's surveillance, colon polyps) is how screening prevents cancer rather than just detecting it early."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/terms/dysplasia/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-09"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysplasia> ;
  schema:citation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysplasia> ;
  onco:related <https://onco.cc/terms/carcinoma-in-situ/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/barretts-esophagus/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/colonoscopy/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/hpv-status/> ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/cervical/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/esophageal/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/colorectal/> ;
  onco:sections <https://onco.cc/fronts/early-detection/>, <https://onco.cc/fronts/prevention/> .