# OnCo record idea-dormancy-maintenance-therapy (idea). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
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@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-dormancy-maintenance-therapy/>
  a schema:CreativeWork ;
  onco:kind "idea" ;
  schema:identifier "idea-dormancy-maintenance-therapy" ;
  schema:name "Keep them asleep: dormancy maintenance as adjuvant therapy"@en ;
  schema:description "Instead of trying to kill every hidden cancer cell after surgery, keep them dormant for life with low-toxicity drugs, the way extended hormone therapy already does in breast cancer."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-dormancy-maintenance-therapy/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-08"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://doi.org/10.1038/nrc3793> ;
  onco:tag "mechanism", "open-question" ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/prostate/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/breast-hr-positive/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/mrd-testing/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/endocrine-therapy/> ;
  onco:institutions <https://onco.cc/institutions/mount-sinai/>, <https://onco.cc/institutions/johns-hopkins/> ;
  onco:pathways <https://onco.cc/pathways/tumor-dormancy/>, <https://onco.cc/pathways/metastatic-cascade/>, <https://onco.cc/pathways/er-signaling/> ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/mrd/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/late-recurrence/> ;
  onco:keyPapers <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-sosa-nat-rev-cancer/> .