# OnCo record log-kill-hypothesis (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/log-kill-hypothesis/>
  a schema:MedicalTherapy ;
  onco:kind "technology" ;
  schema:identifier "log-kill-hypothesis" ;
  schema:name "Log-kill hypothesis (Skipper)"@en ;
  schema:description "A dose of chemotherapy kills a constant fraction of cancer cells, not a constant number, so each cycle removes the same proportion, which is why treatment continues after the tumour has disappeared from scans."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/technologies/log-kill-hypothesis/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-17"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://doi.org/10.1002/1097-0142(196409)18:9<1111::AID-CNCR2820180903>3.0.CO;2-Z> ;
  onco:status "established" ;
  onco:tag "mathematical-model" ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/all-leukemia/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/hodgkin-lymphoma/> ;
  onco:sections <https://onco.cc/fronts/ai-computation/>, <https://onco.cc/fronts/drug-discovery/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/cytotoxic-chemotherapy/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/gompertzian-growth-model/> .