# OnCo record shanta-v (person). 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/people/shanta-v/>
  a schema:Person ;
  onco:kind "person" ;
  schema:identifier "shanta-v" ;
  schema:name "V. Shanta"@en ;
  schema:description "The doctor who spent 66 years building Chennai's Cancer Institute into a hospital where most patients are treated free, and who set up India's first population cancer registry and paediatric oncology unit."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/people/shanta-v/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-10"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V._Shanta> ;
  schema:citation <https://www.cancerinstitutewia.in>, <https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Shanta%20V%5BAuthor%5D%20Cancer%20Institute%20Adyar> ;
  onco:status "historic" ;
  schema:jobTitle "Chairman and former Director, Cancer Institute (WIA), Adyar (1927-2021)" ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/cervical/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/all-leukemia/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/head-and-neck/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/cancer-registries-surveillance/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/global-oncology-access/> ;
  onco:institutions <https://onco.cc/institutions/cancer-institute-adyar/> ;
  onco:journals <https://onco.cc/journals/pediatric-hematology-and-oncology/> ;
  schema:affiliation <https://onco.cc/institutions/cancer-institute-adyar/> .