# OnCo record melatonin-cancer (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/melatonin-cancer/>
  a schema:MedicalTherapy ;
  onco:kind "technology" ;
  schema:identifier "melatonin-cancer" ;
  schema:name "Melatonin as a cancer adjunct"@en ;
  schema:description "Melatonin helps some people sleep and is safe at usual doses, but the claim that high-dose melatonin improves survival rests on a series of small unblinded trials from one group that has never been reproduced elsewhere. It is not a cancer treatment."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/technologies/melatonin-cancer/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-10"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melatonin> ;
  schema:citation <https://doi.org/10.1177/1534735411425484>, <https://www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/integrative-medicine/herbs/melatonin> ;
  onco:status "phase-2" ;
  onco:tag "complementary", "supportive-care", "evidence:insufficient" ;
  onco:sections <https://onco.cc/fronts/supportive-care/>, <https://onco.cc/fronts/nutrition-lifestyle/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/sleep-circadian-interventions/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/integrative-oncology/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/dietary-supplements-treatment-interactions/> ;
  onco:bottlenecks <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-reproducibility/>, <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-misinformation/> ;
  onco:keyPapers <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-seely-integr-cancer-ther/> .