# OnCo record mercury (trial). 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/trials/mercury/>
  a schema:MedicalTrial ;
  onco:kind "trial" ;
  schema:identifier "mercury" ;
  schema:name "MERCURY"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Rectal Cancer European Equivalence Study"@en ;
  schema:description "The study that proved a scan can tell, before any surgery, whether the surgeon will get all of a rectal cancer out, which is why every rectal cancer in the NHS now gets an MRI first."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/trials/mercury/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-24"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://europepmc.org/article/MED/16984925> ;
  onco:status "positive" ;
  onco:tag "uk", "rectal", "staging", "mri" ;
  onco:phase "observational" ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/colorectal/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/rectal-cancer/> ;
  onco:sections <https://onco.cc/fronts/imaging/>, <https://onco.cc/fronts/surgery/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/mri/> ;
  onco:institutions <https://onco.cc/institutions/royal-marsden/> .