National Cancer Institute Thesaurus

Last uploaded: February 21, 2019
Preferred Name

Preventive Intervention

ID

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C15843

ALT_DEFINITION

In medicine, action taken to decrease the chance of getting a disease or condition. For example, cancer prevention includes avoiding risk factors (such as smoking, obesity, lack of exercise, and radiation exposure) and increasing protective factors (such as getting regular physical activity, staying at a healthy weight, and having a healthy diet).

Any action or response to modify or stop the development of a disease.

code

C15843

Concept_In_Subset

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C66830

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C124307

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C61410

Contributing_Source

CDISC

DEFINITION

Therapeutic, nutritional, environmental, social and/or behavioral interventions at the societal, community, organizational or individual levels to reduce, modify or stop the course of a disease.

FULL_SYN

Prevention Measures

Prevention

Prophylaxis

PRYLX

PREVENTATIVE

label

Preventive Intervention

Legacy_Concept_Name

Preventive_Intervention

NCI_META_CUI

CL000755

Preferred_Name

Preventive Intervention

prefixIRI

C15843

prefLabel

Preventive Intervention

Semantic_Type

Therapeutic or Preventive Procedure

subClassOf

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C25218

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