# OnCo record malignant-pleural-effusion (term). 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/terms/malignant-pleural-effusion/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  onco:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "malignant-pleural-effusion" ;
  schema:name "Malignant pleural effusion"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "pleural effusion in cancer"@en, "malignant effusion"@en, "fluid on the lung"@en, "malignant pleural fluid"@en, "recurrent pleural effusion"@en ;
  schema:description "Fluid collecting in the space between the lung and the chest wall because cancer has reached the lining. It makes people breathless, it comes back after it is drained, and the decision is not whether to drain it but how to stop it returning."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/terms/malignant-pleural-effusion/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-25"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleural_effusion> ;
  schema:citation <https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng122/chapter/Palliative-interventions-and-supportive-and-palliative-care>, <https://doi.org/10.1093/bjr/tqaf161> ;
  onco:tag "lung" ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/lung-cancer/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/nsclc/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/sclc/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/mesothelioma/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/pleural-mesothelioma/> ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/pleura/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/pleurodesis/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/pleural-effusion/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/tnm-9-lung-cancer/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/performance-status/> .