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NCIThesaurus Search

Search the NCI Thesaurus (NCIt) for biomedical concepts by term. NCIt is the National Cancer Institute's reference terminology covering cancer-related terms, diseases, drugs, anatomy, genes, and biological processes. Returns matching concepts with NCI codes, names, and semantic types. Essential for standardized cancer research vocabulary. Example: searching 'melanoma' returns C3224 (Melanoma) as the primary concept.

Livelast probed 2026-04-30 23:07Z· 100msCortexa

Status

The most recent probe succeeded. Safe to call from the agent today.

Last probed: 1d ago
Last success: 1d ago
Last latency: 100ms

Schema

JSON Schema the agent (or your API call) must match.

{
  "properties": {
    "page_size": {
      "description": "Number of results to return (default 10, max 100).",
      "type": [
        "integer",
        "null"
      ]
    },
    "term": {
      "description": "Search term for NCI concepts. Examples: 'melanoma', 'breast cancer', 'imatinib', 'BRCA1', 'apoptosis', 'lung adenocarcinoma'.",
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "term"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

Examples (1)

Default NCIThesaurus Search call

public-safeinput

{
  "term": ""
}

Expected response keys: success

Anonymous-safe example. Rate-limited; no sign-in required.

Identifiers

Catalog ID: tu_NCIThesaurus_search
Tool name: NCIThesaurus_search
Added: 2026-04-30 22:47Z
Tags: tooluniverse

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