# OnCo record granisetron (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/granisetron/>
  a schema:Drug ;
  onco:kind "drug" ;
  schema:identifier "granisetron" ;
  schema:name "Granisetron"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "Granisetron hydrochloride"@en, "Granisetron transdermal system"@en, "Granisetron extended-release injection"@en, "Kytril (historic) / Sancuso / Sustol" ;
  schema:description "Granisetron is an anti-sickness medicine for chemotherapy given as a tablet, an injection, a week-long skin patch (Sancuso) or a slow-release injection that lasts several days (Sustol)."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/drugs/granisetron/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-10"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granisetron> ;
  schema:citation <https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/search.cfm?labeltype=all&query=granisetron>, <https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/drugs/granisetron>, <https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/drugs/granisetronhydrochloride>, <https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/sancuso> ;
  onco:status "approved" ;
  onco:tag "nci-list", "supportive", "generic" ;
  onco:modality "5-HT3 receptor antagonist (antiemetic)" ;
  onco:approval "US 1993: Prevention of nausea and vomiting from emetogenic chemotherapy (Kytril; radiotherapy later)", "US 2008: Transdermal system for chemotherapy of up to five consecutive days (Sancuso)", "US 2016: Extended-release injection for acute and delayed nausea and vomiting with moderately emetogenic or anthracycline-cyclophosphamide chemotherapy (Sustol)", "EU 2012: Transdermal granisetron for moderately or highly emetogenic chemotherapy (Sancuso)" ;
  onco:related <https://onco.cc/drugs/ondansetron/>, <https://onco.cc/drugs/palonosetron/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/antiemetic-therapy/> ;
  onco:companies <https://onco.cc/companies/heron-therapeutics/> ;
  onco:trials <https://onco.cc/trials/nct00186628/> .