# OnCo record via-cervical-screening (technology). 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/technologies/via-cervical-screening/>
  a schema:MedicalTherapy ;
  onco:kind "technology" ;
  schema:identifier "via-cervical-screening" ;
  schema:name "Visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA) for cervical screening"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "VIA"@en, "visual inspection with acetic acid"@en, "VILI"@en, "screen-and-treat"@en, "vinegar test"@en ;
  schema:description "A nurse paints the cervix with household-strength vinegar and looks with a torch: precancer turns white within a minute and can be frozen or heat-treated at the same visit, which is how cervical cancer deaths were cut by a third in Indian villages without a laboratory."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/technologies/via-cervical-screening/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-17"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(07)61195-7>, <https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240030824> ;
  onco:status "established" ;
  onco:related <https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-prev-hpv-same-day-screen-and-treat/>, <https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-acc-hpv-self-sample-same-day-ablation/> ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/cervical/> ;
  onco:sections <https://onco.cc/fronts/early-detection/>, <https://onco.cc/fronts/diagnostics/>, <https://onco.cc/fronts/prevention/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/hpv-testing/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/hpv-vaccine/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/thermal-ablation/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/colposcopy-excision/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/global-oncology-access/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/hand-held-ultrasound/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/oral-visual-screening/> ;
  onco:institutions <https://onco.cc/institutions/tata-memorial/>, <https://onco.cc/institutions/iarc/>, <https://onco.cc/institutions/who/> ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/cin-hsil/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/hpv-status/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/screening/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/sensitivity-specificity/> ;
  onco:trials <https://onco.cc/trials/mumbai-via-screening/>, <https://onco.cc/trials/osmanabad-hpv-screening/> .