癌症严重威胁儿童的健康,美国每年有12400名儿童被诊断为癌症,其中白血病是最常见的恶性肿瘤,占儿童癌症的33%[1]。随着医疗技术的发展,癌症生存率已有很大提高,尤其是儿童白血病的存活率已达80%[2]。但临床医生在治疗过程中很少重视疾病对患儿及家庭产生的社会心理影响,这对成 Cancer seriously threatens the health of children. In the United States, 12,400 children are diagnosed with cancer each year. Leukemia is the most common malignancy, accounting for 33% of children’s cancers [1]. With the development of medical technology, cancer survival rate has been greatly improved, especially in children with leukemia survival rate has reached 80% [2]. However, clinicians rarely pay much attention to the social and psychological impact of the disease on their children and their families in the course of treatment.