# OnCo record methylthioninium-chloride-lumeblue (drug). 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/drugs/methylthioninium-chloride-lumeblue/>
  a schema:Drug ;
  onco:kind "drug" ;
  schema:identifier "methylthioninium-chloride-lumeblue" ;
  schema:name "Methylthioninium chloride (Lumeblue, for colonoscopy)"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "methylthioninium chloride"@en, "methylene blue"@en, "Lumeblue"@en, "Methylthioninium chloride Cosmo"@en, "Lumeblue" ;
  schema:description "Lumeblue is a blue dye taken as tablets the day before a colonoscopy. It stains the lining of the bowel so that the doctor can see polyps and early cancers more easily during screening or follow-up."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/drugs/methylthioninium-chloride-lumeblue/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-11-03"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/lumeblue> ;
  onco:status "approved" ;
  onco:tag "universe-gap", "ema-register", "diagnostic" ;
  onco:modality "Oral contrast agent for colonoscopy (blue dye, delayed-release tablet)" ;
  onco:approval "EU 2020: Diagnostic agent enhancing visualisation of colorectal lesions in adults undergoing screening or surveillance colonoscopy" ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/colorectal/> ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/colonoscopy/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/adenoma-detection-rate/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/colorectal-polyp-types/> .