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

# NSC number (`nscnumber`)

> **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.

Number that the Developmental Therapeutics Program of the US National Cancer Institute (NCI) gives to a substance submitted for testing. Wikidata stores the bare number; PubChem writes it with the prefix "NSC", for example NSC27223.

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

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^(?:NSC ?)?[1-9]\d{0,5}$
```

## Examples

- `NSC27223` — Aspirin, as PubChem writes it
- `224131` — Sparfosic acid
- `1300` — Hexaamminecobalt(III) nitrate
- `DTXSID5020108` (invalid example) — DSSTox substance ID of aspirin

## Mappings

- bioregistry: `nsc`
- wikidata: `P2840`

## Translations

- ru: Номер NSC: Номер вещества, переданного на испытания в Национальный институт рака США.

## Sources

- wikidata: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2840>
- doc: <https://dtp.cancer.gov/databases_tools/bulk_data.htm>

## Quality

Score 90/100. Missing: detector coverage.

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