title: Spirituality and pediatric cancer.
abstract: Spiritual beliefs are an important source of comfort and support to many cancer patients and their families, but they may play a particularly large role when the patient is a child. Parents facing a child's serious illness and possible death, and children themselves trying to make sense of illness, suffering, and death, often look beyond the material world for comfort and explanations.
authors.affiliation: Neuro-Oncology Center, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA, USA. bwp5g@virginia.edu
authors.forename: Benjamin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Purow
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Alisanski
authors.forename: Gordon
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Putnam
authors.forename: Marjory
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ruderman
mesh_terms: D001293:Attitude to Death; D006694:Holistic Health; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology*; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology; D010327:Pastoral Care; D010372:Pediatrics; D029181:Spirituality