# OnCo record samuel-wells (person). 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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@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/people/samuel-wells/>
  a schema:Person ;
  onco:kind "person" ;
  schema:identifier "samuel-wells" ;
  schema:name "Samuel A. Wells Jr."@en ;
  schema:description "American surgeon who pioneered removing the thyroid in children with inherited RET mutations before cancer develops, led ZETA, the trial that established vandetanib for medullary thyroid cancer, and chaired the American Thyroid Association guideline for the disease."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/people/samuel-wells/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-18"^^xsd:date ;
  onco:tag "thyroid", "surgery", "trialist" ;
  schema:jobTitle "Endocrine surgeon and clinical investigator" ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/medullary-thyroid-cancer/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/thyroid/> ;
  onco:institutions <https://onco.cc/institutions/nci/> ;
  onco:trials <https://onco.cc/trials/zeta/> ;
  onco:keyPapers <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-ata-medullary-thyroid-guideline-wells-thyroid-2015/>, <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-zeta-vandetanib-mtc-wells-jco-2012/> ;
  schema:affiliation <https://onco.cc/institutions/nci/> .