# OnCo record hhv8-kshv (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 xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/terms/hhv8-kshv/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  onco:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "hhv8-kshv" ;
  schema:name "HHV-8 (KSHV) status and LANA-1 immunohistochemistry"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "HHV-8"@en, "HHV8"@en, "human herpesvirus 8"@en, "KSHV"@en, "Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus"@en, "Kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus"@en, "LANA"@en, "LANA-1"@en, "latency-associated nuclear antigen"@en, "KSHV viral load"@en, "HHV-8 viral load"@en, "KICS"@en, "KSHV inflammatory cytokine syndrome"@en, "HHV-8-associated multicentric Castleman disease"@en, "primary effusion lymphoma HHV-8"@en ;
  schema:description "Kaposi sarcoma, primary effusion lymphoma and one form of Castleman disease are all caused by human herpesvirus 8; a nuclear stain for its LANA-1 protein confirms the diagnosis on a biopsy, and the amount of virus in the blood tracks the dangerous inflammatory syndromes it can cause."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/terms/hhv8-kshv/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-17"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaposi%27s_sarcoma-associated_herpesvirus> ;
  schema:citation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaposi%27s_sarcoma-associated_herpesvirus> ;
  onco:related <https://onco.cc/terms/ebv-term/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/ihc/>, <https://onco.cc/drugs/doxorubicin/>, <https://onco.cc/drugs/paclitaxel/>, <https://onco.cc/drugs/pomalidomide/>, <https://onco.cc/drugs/rituximab/> ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/kaposi-sarcoma/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/hiv-associated-lymphoma/> .