# OnCo record rcb (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/rcb/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  onco:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "rcb" ;
  schema:name "Residual cancer burden (RCB)"@en ;
  schema:description "A pathology score for how much cancer remains in the breast and lymph nodes after pre-surgery treatment, from 0 (none) to III (a large amount), combining tumour bed size, cellularity and nodal involvement. RCB-II or III after neoadjuvant therapy predicts a high risk of relapse and defines who enters escalation trials."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/terms/rcb/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-04"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://doi.org/10.1200/JCO.2007.10.6823>, <https://doi.org/10.1200/jco.2015.63.1010>, <https://doi.org/10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-15-2477>, <https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.70561> ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/tnbc/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/tnbc-early/> ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/tnm-breast-cancer-editions/> ;
  onco:keyPapers <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-symmans-j-clin-oncol/> .