# OnCo record pulmonary-nodule (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/pulmonary-nodule/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  onco:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "pulmonary-nodule" ;
  schema:name "Pulmonary nodule"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "lung nodule"@en, "solitary pulmonary nodule"@en, "lung nodules"@en, "ground-glass nodule"@en, "sub-solid nodule"@en, "part-solid nodule"@en, "spiculated nodule"@en ;
  schema:description "A small round shadow in the lung on a CT scan, usually under 3 cm. Most are scars or old infections, not cancer. What decides the next step is size, density and whether it grows between scans, which is why so many are simply rescanned rather than biopsied."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/terms/pulmonary-nodule/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-25"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lung_nodule> ;
  schema:citation <https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa1102873>, <https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa1911793>, <https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2021.0377>, <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtho.2021.11.003> ;
  onco:tag "lung" ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/lung-cancer/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/nsclc/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/lung-adenocarcinoma-in-situ-and-minimally-invasive/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/ct/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/low-dose-ct-screening/>, <https://onco.cc/drugs/optellum-virtual-nodule-clinic/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/radiology-ai-screening/> ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/lung-rads/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/targeted-lung-health-check/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/spread-through-air-spaces/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/pack-year/> .