# OnCo record organ-preservation (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/organ-preservation/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  onco:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "organ-preservation" ;
  schema:name "Organ preservation (watch-and-wait, bladder-sparing, larynx preservation)"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "organ-preservation"@en, "organ preservation"@en, "organ-sparing"@en, "organ sparing"@en, "bladder-sparing"@en, "bladder preservation"@en, "bladder-preserving"@en, "larynx preservation"@en, "larynx-preserving"@en, "sphincter preservation"@en, "sphincter-sparing"@en, "watch-and-wait"@en, "watch and wait"@en, "non-operative management"@en, "nonoperative management"@en, "NOM"@en, "rectum preservation"@en, "limb preservation"@en, "breast preservation"@en, "fertility-sparing"@en, "nerve-sparing"@en ;
  schema:description "Curing a cancer with drugs and radiotherapy so that the organ (rectum, bladder, larynx, limb) does not have to be removed, keeping surgery in reserve for the minority whose cancer regrows."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/terms/organ-preservation/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-09"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchful_waiting> ;
  schema:citation <https://doi.org/10.1200/JCO.22.00032>, <https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng151/chapter/Recommendations>, <https://www.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-information-and-support/treatments-and-drugs/chemoradiation-for-rectal-cancer> ;
  onco:related <https://onco.cc/terms/total-neoadjuvant-therapy/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/chemoradiation/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/salvage-therapy/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/stoma/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/de-escalation/> ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/colorectal/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/urothelial/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/head-and-neck/> ;
  onco:sections <https://onco.cc/fronts/radiation/>, <https://onco.cc/fronts/surgery/> ;
  onco:keyPapers <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-garcia-aguilar-opra-organ-preservation-jco-2022/> .