# OnCo record tors (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 owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/technologies/tors/>
  a schema:MedicalTherapy ;
  onco:kind "technology" ;
  schema:identifier "tors" ;
  schema:name "Transoral robotic surgery (TORS)"@en ;
  schema:description "Transoral robotic surgery removes early (T1 to T2) throat tumours through the mouth with a robot and 3D endoscope, avoiding splitting the jaw or a tracheostomy. In HPV-positive oropharyngeal cancer the pathology then guides how much radiation to add, but randomised trials found it no better than radiation for swallowing, and surgeon volume matters."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/technologies/tors/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-07"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transoral_robotic_surgery> ;
  owl:sameAs <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28455206> ;
  schema:citation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transoral_robotic_surgery> ;
  onco:status "established" ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/head-and-neck/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/oropharyngeal-cancer/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/hpv-positive-oropharyngeal-cancer/> ;
  onco:sections <https://onco.cc/fronts/surgery/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/robotic-surgery/> ;
  onco:companies <https://onco.cc/companies/intuitive-surgical/> ;
  onco:trials <https://onco.cc/trials/ecog-e3311/>, <https://onco.cc/trials/pathos/> .