# OnCo record elective-neck-dissection-tmh (trial). 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/trials/elective-neck-dissection-tmh/>
  a schema:MedicalTrial ;
  onco:kind "trial" ;
  schema:identifier "elective-neck-dissection-tmh", "NCT00193765" ;
  schema:name "Elective vs therapeutic neck dissection in node-negative oral cancer (Tata Memorial)"@en ;
  schema:description "A Tata Memorial trial ended a 50-year debate by showing that removing the neck lymph nodes at the first operation for early mouth cancer raises three-year survival from about two-thirds to four-fifths."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/trials/elective-neck-dissection-tmh/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-10"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00193765>, <https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa1506007> ;
  onco:status "positive" ;
  onco:phase "3" ;
  schema:startDate "2004-01" ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/head-and-neck/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/oral-cavity-cancer/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/oral-tongue-cancer/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/buccal-mucosa-cancer/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/sentinel-node/> ;
  onco:institutions <https://onco.cc/institutions/tata-memorial/> ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/os/> ;
  onco:people <https://onco.cc/people/dcruz-anil/> ;
  onco:bottlenecks <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-surgery-radiation-innovation/> ;
  onco:keyPapers <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-dcruz-elective-neck-dissection-nejm-2015/> .