# OnCo record laetrile-amygdalin (technology). 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/technologies/laetrile-amygdalin/>
  a schema:MedicalTherapy ;
  onco:kind "technology" ;
  schema:identifier "laetrile-amygdalin" ;
  schema:name "Laetrile (amygdalin, 'vitamin B17')"@en ;
  schema:description "Laetrile, sold as vitamin B17 or apricot kernel extract, was tested in a large National Cancer Institute study in the 1980s and did nothing against cancer. It releases cyanide in the gut, and people have been poisoned by it."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/technologies/laetrile-amygdalin/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-10"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amygdalin> ;
  schema:citation <https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD005476.pub4>, <https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/cam/hp/laetrile-pdq> ;
  onco:status "negative" ;
  onco:tag "complementary", "supportive-care", "evidence:harm" ;
  onco:sections <https://onco.cc/fronts/supportive-care/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/alternative-medicine-instead-of-treatment/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/integrative-oncology/> ;
  onco:bottlenecks <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-misinformation/> ;
  onco:keyPapers <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-milazzo-cochrane-database-syst-rev/> .