# OnCo record fentanyl (drug). 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/drugs/fentanyl/>
  a schema:Drug ;
  onco:kind "drug" ;
  schema:identifier "fentanyl" ;
  schema:name "Fentanyl (transmucosal, for breakthrough cancer pain)"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "fentanyl"@en, "fentanyl citrate"@en, "Effentora"@en, "Instanyl"@en, "PecFent"@en, "Effentora / Instanyl / PecFent" ;
  schema:description "These are fast-acting forms of the opioid fentanyl, taken as a tablet against the cheek or as a nasal spray, for sudden flares of pain in people whose cancer pain is otherwise controlled by a regular opioid. They are only for patients already tolerant to opioids."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/drugs/fentanyl/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-22"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/effentora>, <https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/instanyl>, <https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/pecfent> ;
  onco:status "approved" ;
  onco:tag "ema-register", "supportive" ;
  onco:modality "Small-molecule opioid analgesic (buccal tablet and nasal sprays)" ;
  onco:approval "EU 2008: Breakthrough pain in adults receiving maintenance opioid therapy for chronic cancer pain" ;
  onco:related <https://onco.cc/drugs/methylnaltrexone/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/pain-management/> ;
  onco:targets <https://onco.cc/targets/oprm1/> ;
  onco:companies <https://onco.cc/companies/gruenenthal/> .