# OnCo record peer-support-groups (technology). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
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@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/technologies/peer-support-groups/>
  a schema:MedicalTherapy ;
  onco:kind "technology" ;
  schema:identifier "peer-support-groups" ;
  schema:name "Peer support and support groups"@en ;
  schema:description "Meeting others in the same situation reduces distress and isolation, and randomised trials of supportive-expressive groups show better mood and pain coping. The once-famous claim that support groups lengthen survival did not hold up in a larger trial."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/technologies/peer-support-groups/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-10"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Support_group> ;
  schema:citation <https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa011871>, <https://doi.org/10.1200/JCO.23.00857>, <https://www.bowelcanceruk.org.uk/about-bowel-cancer/living-with-and-beyond-bowel-cancer/emotional-wellbeing/supporting-someone-with-bowel-cancer/>, <https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/bowel-cancer/living-with/coping>, <https://www.maggies.org/support-and-information/>, <https://roycastle.org/our-support/>, <https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/lung-cancer/living-with/resources-books>, <https://lymphoma-action.org.uk/information-and-support/support-you/helpline-services>, <https://lymphoma-action.org.uk/information-and-support/living-and-beyond-lymphoma/emotional-impact-living-lymphoma> ;
  onco:status "established" ;
  onco:tag "complementary", "supportive-care", "evidence:moderate" ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/breast-hr-positive/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/colorectal/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/lung-cancer/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/nsclc/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/sclc/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/non-hodgkin-lymphoma/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/dlbcl/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/follicular-lymphoma/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/mantle-cell-lymphoma/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/marginal-zone-lymphoma/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/malt-lymphoma/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/splenic-marginal-zone-lymphoma/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/nodal-marginal-zone-lymphoma/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/waldenstrom/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/primary-mediastinal-b-cell-lymphoma/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/burkitt-lymphoma/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/hodgkin-lymphoma/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/early-stage-classical-hodgkin-lymphoma/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/advanced-stage-classical-hodgkin-lymphoma/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/relapsed-refractory-hodgkin-lymphoma/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/nodular-lymphocyte-predominant-hodgkin-lymphoma/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/peripheral-t-cell-lymphoma/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/angioimmunoblastic-t-cell-lymphoma/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/cutaneous-t-cell-lymphoma/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/sezary-syndrome/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/primary-cns-lymphoma/> ;
  onco:sections <https://onco.cc/fronts/supportive-care/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/psycho-oncology/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/integrative-oncology/> ;
  onco:institutions <https://onco.cc/institutions/macmillan-cancer-support/> ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/quality-of-life/> ;
  onco:bottlenecks <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-patient-voice/>, <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-misinformation/> ;
  onco:keyPapers <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-carlson-j-clin-oncol/>, <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-goodwin-n-engl-j-med/> .