# OnCo record perineural-invasion (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/perineural-invasion/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  onco:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "perineural-invasion" ;
  schema:name "Perineural invasion (PNI)"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "PNI"@en, "perineural"@en, "nerve invasion"@en, "neural invasion"@en ;
  schema:description "Cancer cells growing along the sheath of a nerve. Nerves act as tracks for spread, so this finding predicts recurrence, especially in pancreatic, prostate and head and neck cancers."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/terms/perineural-invasion/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-09"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perineural_invasion> ;
  schema:citation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perineural_invasion>, <https://doi.org/10.1001/jamadermatol.2013.2139>, <https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers17243921> ;
  onco:related <https://onco.cc/terms/lymphovascular-invasion/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/resection-margins/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/surgical-margins-keratinocyte-cancer/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/radiotherapy-for-skin-cancer/> ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/pancreatic/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/prostate/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/head-and-neck/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/cutaneous-scc/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/skin-cancer/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/bowens-disease/> ;
  onco:sections <https://onco.cc/fronts/diagnostics/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/nerve-tumour-denervation/> ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/tnm-skin-carcinoma/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/skin-cancer-high-risk-features/> ;
  onco:trials <https://onco.cc/trials/c-post/>, <https://onco.cc/trials/trog-05-01/> .