# OnCo record katie-couric (person). 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/people/katie-couric/>
  a schema:Person ;
  onco:kind "person" ;
  schema:identifier "katie-couric" ;
  schema:name "Katie Couric"@en ;
  schema:description "After her husband died of colon cancer at 42, she had a colonoscopy live on national television in 2000. Screening rates rose measurably afterwards: the \"Couric effect\"."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/people/katie-couric/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-09"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Couric> ;
  owl:sameAs <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q230739> ;
  schema:citation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Couric>, <https://standuptocancer.org/> ;
  onco:tag "public-figure", "carer", "advocate", "patient" ;
  schema:jobTitle "Widow, journalist and later patient; the on-air colonoscopy that lifted screening rates" ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/colorectal/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/colorectal-screening/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/mammography/> ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/stage-shift/> ;
  onco:bottlenecks <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-prevention-adoption/>, <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-early-detection/>, <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-knowledge-diffusion/> .