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For years scientists suspected that people with strong emotional ties to families, friends and
community enjoy longer lives than loners do. But this had 36 influence on cancer care until
1989, when Dr. David Spiegel published a study involving two groups of women with breast
cancer. 37 groups received standard medical care. Patients in one group also attended a weekly
support-group meeting for one year. Those women, Dr. Spiegel found, fought cancer better
and 38 an average of 18 months longer. 39 , a study showed that skin cancer patients who
participated 40 a support group survived significantly longer than those who had received only
standard care.
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