# OnCo record total-mesorectal-excision (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/total-mesorectal-excision/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  onco:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "total-mesorectal-excision" ;
  schema:name "Total mesorectal excision (TME)"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "mesorectal excision"@en, "low anterior resection"@en, "anterior resection"@en, "TME surgery"@en ;
  schema:description "The standard rectal cancer operation: the rectum is removed together with its surrounding fatty envelope (the mesorectum) in one intact package, which is where local recurrences used to come from."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/terms/total-mesorectal-excision/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-09"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_mesorectal_excision> ;
  schema:citation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_mesorectal_excision>, <https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng151/chapter/Recommendations>, <https://www.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-information-and-support/treatments-and-drugs/surgery-to-remove-rectal-cancer>, <https://www.bowelcanceruk.org.uk/about-bowel-cancer/treatment/surgery/stomas/>, <https://doi.org/10.1002/bjs.1800691019>, <https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(86)92612-7>, <https://doi.org/10.1200/jco.2007.12.7027> ;
  onco:related <https://onco.cc/terms/abdominoperineal-resection/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/organ-preservation/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/total-neoadjuvant-therapy/> ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/colorectal/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/rectal-cancer/> ;
  onco:sections <https://onco.cc/fronts/surgery/> ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/circumferential-resection-margin/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/watch-and-wait-rectal-cancer/> .