# OnCo record merkel-cell-staging (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/merkel-cell-staging/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  onco:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "merkel-cell-staging" ;
  schema:name "Merkel cell carcinoma staging (AJCC chapter 46)"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "Merkel cell carcinoma staging"@en, "Merkel cell staging"@en ;
  schema:description "Merkel cell carcinoma is staged by tumour size (2 cm is the cut-off), growth into deeper tissue, spread to lymph nodes and, at stage IV, to distant skin or organs."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/terms/merkel-cell-staging/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-11-04"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://www.cancer.gov/types/skin/patient/merkel-cell-treatment-pdq>, <https://www.facs.org/media/c5ik5tkr/ajcc-current-staging-system-2026.pdf> ;
  onco:related <https://onco.cc/terms/tnm-staging/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/sentinel-node/> ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/merkel-cell-carcinoma/> .