# OnCo record early-detection-term (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 owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/terms/early-detection-term/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  onco:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "early-detection-term" ;
  schema:name "Early detection"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "early diagnosis"@en, "detected early"@en, "caught early"@en, "diagnosed early"@en, "found early"@en, "earlier detection"@en, "earlier diagnosis"@en, "detecting cancer early"@en, "detect cancer earlier"@en, "early-stage diagnosis"@en, "diagnostic delay"@en, "late diagnosis"@en, "late presentation"@en ;
  schema:description "Finding a cancer while it is still small and confined, when it is most often curable. Five-year survival for most cancers is several times higher at stage I than at stage IV, which is why so much effort goes into detecting them sooner."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/terms/early-detection-term/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-09"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_screening#Early_detection> ;
  owl:sameAs <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3044843> ;
  schema:citation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_screening#Early_detection> ;
  onco:related <https://onco.cc/terms/screening/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/stage-shift/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/cancer-stage/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/ctdna/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/prognosis/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/hereditary-cancer-syndromes/> ;
  onco:sections <https://onco.cc/fronts/early-detection/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/mced/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/liquid-biopsy/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/radiology-ai-screening/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/whole-body-mri/> .