---
id: "ncitcode"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["medical", "science"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 90
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/ncitcode"
---

# NCI Thesaurus code (`ncitcode`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Concept code in the NCI Thesaurus (NCIt), the reference vocabulary of the US National Cancer Institute for drugs, diseases, genes, anatomy and other biomedical concepts. A concept code is "C" followed by digits.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Medical/pharma identifiers (medical), Scientific (science)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^C\d{3,7}$
```

## Examples

- `C287` — Aspirin
- `C19409` — HLA-DRB1 gene
- `C75016` — Cornelia de Lange syndrome
- `287` (invalid example) — The "C" prefix is missing

## Mappings

- bioregistry: `ncit`
- wikidata: `P1748`

## Translations

- ru: Код тезауруса NCI: Код понятия в тезаурусе Национального института рака США (NCI Thesaurus).

## Sources

- wikidata: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1748>
- doc: <https://evsexplore.semantics.cancer.gov/evsexplore/welcome>

## Quality

Score 90/100. Missing: detector coverage.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/ncitcode.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/medical/ncitcode.yaml>