# OnCo record urinary-catecholamines (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/urinary-catecholamines/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  onco:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "urinary-catecholamines" ;
  schema:name "Urinary catecholamine metabolites (VMA and HVA)"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "urinary catecholamines"@en, "catecholamine metabolites"@en, "VMA"@en, "HVA"@en, "vanillylmandelic acid"@en, "homovanillic acid"@en, "urine VMA/HVA"@en, "urinary VMA"@en, "urinary HVA"@en, "VMA/HVA ratio"@en, "spot urine catecholamines"@en, "24-hour urine catecholamines"@en ;
  schema:description "Neuroblastoma cells make adrenaline-type hormones and spill their breakdown products, VMA and HVA, into urine; a simple urine test supports the diagnosis in nine out of ten children, and falling levels after treatment or rising ones in follow-up track the tumour without a scan."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/terms/urinary-catecholamines/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-17"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanillylmandelic_acid> ;
  schema:citation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanillylmandelic_acid> ;
  onco:related <https://onco.cc/terms/inrg-staging/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/tumour-markers/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/chromogranin-a/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/mibg-theranostics/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/curie-siopen-score/> ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/neuroblastoma/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/neuroblastoma-low-risk/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/neuroblastoma-intermediate-risk/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/neuroblastoma-high-risk/> .