title: [Silence in children with oncologic diseases (author's transl)].
abstract: Silence is one of the dominant features in the behavior of fatally ill children and of the adults who care for these children. Silence signals the effectiveness of taboos that are still present in society, hospital personnel as well as in parents and children.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001293:Attitude to Death; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005860:Germany, West; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D013609:Taboo; D014705:Verbal Behavior
vernacular_title: Warum schweigen die krebskranken Kinder?