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NCI Thesaurus (NCIt)

NCI reference terminology and core biomedical ontology. Anchor of the CancerIndex cancer ontology: every canonical cancer entity is minted from a concept under "Neoplasm" (C3262), with preferred names, synonyms, definitions, the stated parent-child hierarchy, malignancy / hematologic / pediatric flags and anatomical site groups.

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License

License and attribution

Status
approved
License
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
Allowed
Redistribution
Attribution
Reviewed
Sep 8, 2026
Approved for production
Yes
Attribution
NCI Thesaurus (NCIt), National Cancer Institute Enterprise Vocabulary Services, https://evs.nci.nih.gov/ — CC BY 4.0. "NCI Thesaurus" is a trademark of the NCI.

Reviewed: CancerIndex may ingest and display this data with attribution. Redistribution allowed with attribution. Commercial use allowed.

Connector

Ingest runs

Every execution of the connector: mode, status, counts, duration and dataset version. Runs never mass-delete on a shrunken response (anomaly guard).

RunModeStatusStartedDurationFetchedCreatedUpdatedRejectedHTTP failDataset version
ING-NCITEVS-20260908-000001fullsucceededSep 8, 2026, 09:44 AM UTC10.8 s16,24716,247000/126.08e

Records

Source records by entity kind

Native records kept for idempotency and lineage (source + entity kind + source record id).

Entity kindStatusRecords (count)Last retrieved
conceptactive9,327Sep 8, 2026, 09:44 AM UTC
conceptdeprecated821Sep 8, 2026, 09:44 AM UTC
qualified_stateactive6,099Sep 8, 2026, 09:44 AM UTC

Data updated 22 days agoSource updated 26.08e