# OnCo record litt (technology). 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/technologies/litt/>
  a schema:MedicalTherapy ;
  onco:kind "technology" ;
  schema:identifier "litt" ;
  schema:name "Laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT)"@en ;
  schema:description "Laser interstitial thermal therapy guides a laser fibre through a small skull hole, monitored by real-time MRI, to heat and destroy deep brain tumours a surgeon could not safely reach."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/technologies/litt/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-06"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://doi.org/10.1093/neuros/nyy375> ;
  onco:status "established" ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/glioblastoma/> ;
  onco:sections <https://onco.cc/fronts/surgery/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/mri/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/thermal-ablation/> ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/blood-brain-barrier/> ;
  onco:keyPapers <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-kamath-neurosurgery/> .