# OnCo record tumour-bed-boost (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/tumour-bed-boost/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  onco:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "tumour-bed-boost" ;
  schema:name "Tumour bed boost"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "boost"@en, "breast boost"@en, "radiotherapy boost"@en, "boost to the tumour bed"@en ;
  schema:description "An extra dose of radiotherapy aimed at the small area the lump came from, given after the whole breast has been treated. It cuts the chance of the cancer coming back in that breast by about a third, does not help anyone live longer, and triples the chance of the breast becoming hard and scarred."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/terms/tumour-bed-boost/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-25"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://doi.org/10.1016/S1470-2045(14)71156-8>, <https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng101> ;
  onco:related <https://onco.cc/terms/partial-breast-irradiation/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/resection-margins/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/hypofractionation/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/lumpectomy/> ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/breast-cancer/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/breast-hr-positive/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/breast-her2-positive/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/tnbc/> ;
  onco:sections <https://onco.cc/fronts/radiation/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/imrt-igrt/> ;
  onco:trials <https://onco.cc/trials/eortc-22881-boost/>, <https://onco.cc/trials/eortc-10801/> .