# OnCo record placebo (term). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
@prefix schema: <https://schema.org/> .
@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/terms/placebo/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  onco:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "placebo" ;
  schema:name "Placebo"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "placebos"@en, "placebo-controlled"@en, "placebo controlled"@en, "placebo arm"@en, "placebo group"@en, "dummy pill"@en, "sugar pill"@en, "placebo effect"@en, "sham"@en ;
  schema:description "An inactive look-alike treatment given to the comparison group in a trial so that neither patients nor doctors can tell who is on the real drug. In cancer trials it is added on top of standard treatment, never given instead of it."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/terms/placebo/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-09"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo> ;
  owl:sameAs <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q269829> ;
  schema:citation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo> ;
  onco:related <https://onco.cc/terms/randomised-trial/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/blinding/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/clinical-trial/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/standard-of-care/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/side-effect-vs-adverse-event/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/double-blind/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/clinical-equipoise/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/informed-consent/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/n-of-1-trial/> ;
  onco:trials <https://onco.cc/trials/add-aspirin/>, <https://onco.cc/trials/olanzapine-appetite-tmh/>, <https://onco.cc/trials/keynote-564/>, <https://onco.cc/trials/act-iv/> .