# OnCo record wbrt (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/wbrt/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  onco:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "wbrt" ;
  schema:name "Whole-brain radiotherapy (WBRT)"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "WBRT"@en, "whole-brain"@en, "whole-brain radiation"@en, "whole brain radiotherapy"@en, "hippocampal-avoidance"@en ;
  schema:description "Irradiating the entire brain, typically 30 Gy in 10 sessions, when metastases are too numerous or too widespread (leptomeningeal) for focused radiosurgery. It controls disease but dulls memory, so it is now reserved for those cases, with hippocampal-avoidance planning and memantine to limit the decline."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/terms/wbrt/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-09"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_brain_radiotherapy> ;
  schema:citation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_brain_radiotherapy> ;
  onco:related <https://onco.cc/terms/stereotactic-radiosurgery/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/brain-metastases/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/prophylactic-cranial-irradiation/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/leptomeningeal-disease/> ;
  onco:sections <https://onco.cc/fronts/radiation/> .