# OnCo record half-life (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/half-life/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  onco:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "half-life" ;
  schema:name "Half-life"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "half-lives"@en, "half life"@en, "plasma half-life"@en, "elimination half-life"@en, "pharmacokinetics"@en, "pharmacokinetic"@en, "PK"@en, "cleared from the body"@en, "drug exposure"@en, "peak concentration"@en, "Cmax"@en, "AUC"@en, "steady state"@en, "steady-state"@en ;
  schema:description "The time it takes for the amount of a drug in the blood to fall by half. It sets how often a drug must be given: hours to a day for small molecules such as kinase inhibitors, so they are taken daily, and two to four weeks for antibodies, so they are given every three or six weeks."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/terms/half-life/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-09"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_half-life> ;
  owl:sameAs <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q686886> ;
  schema:citation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_half-life> ;
  onco:related <https://onco.cc/terms/dose/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/antibody/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/fc-effector/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/alpha-vs-beta/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/dosimetry/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/radioligand-therapy/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/monoclonal-antibody/> .