# OnCo record pilocarpine (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/pilocarpine/>
  a schema:Drug ;
  onco:kind "drug" ;
  schema:identifier "pilocarpine" ;
  schema:name "Pilocarpine"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "Salagen"@en ;
  schema:description "Pilocarpine tablets are approved to treat the dry mouth that follows head and neck radiotherapy; they help when some gland tissue is left, at the cost of sweating and other cholinergic side effects."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/drugs/pilocarpine/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-16"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilocarpine> ;
  onco:status "approved" ;
  onco:tag "radiation-wave3" ;
  onco:modality "Cholinergic agonist (small molecule) for radiation-induced dry mouth" ;
  onco:approval "US 1994: Dry mouth caused by radiotherapy for head and neck cancer" ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/head-and-neck/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/nasopharyngeal/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/radioprotectors/> ;
  onco:companies <https://onco.cc/companies/eisai/> ;
  onco:trials <https://onco.cc/trials/nct00343382/>, <https://onco.cc/trials/nct00003139/>, <https://onco.cc/trials/nct00168181/> .