# OnCo record paper-burkitt-sarcoma-involving-jaws-african-children-br-j-surg-1958 (paper). 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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  schema:identifier "paper-burkitt-sarcoma-involving-jaws-african-children-br-j-surg-1958" ;
  schema:name "A sarcoma involving the jaws in African children"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "Burkitt 1958"@en, "The first description of Burkitt lymphoma"@en ;
  schema:description "A surgeon working in Uganda described a tumour of the jaw in children that nobody had named, and the pattern of where it occurred led, six years later, to the discovery of the first human cancer virus."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-burkitt-sarcoma-involving-jaws-african-children-br-j-surg-1958/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-10-01"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://doi.org/10.1002/bjs.18004619704>, <https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/13628987/>, <https://europepmc.org/article/MED/13628987> ;
  onco:tag "lymphoma-evidence" ;
  schema:sameAs <https://doi.org/10.1002/bjs.18004619704> ;
  schema:datePublished "1958"^^xsd:gYear ;
  schema:author "Burkitt D." ;
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  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/burkitt-lymphoma/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/non-hodgkin-lymphoma/> ;
  onco:sections <https://onco.cc/fronts/diagnostics/>, <https://onco.cc/fronts/prevention/> ;
  onco:targets <https://onco.cc/pathways/myc/> ;
  onco:bottlenecks <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-global-access/>, <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-rare-cancers/> .
