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Seeing Cancer Through a Sibling’s Eyes: What We Don’t Know Can Hurt Them

Perceptions of the impact of cancer on the family often come from the parental perspective. However, recent research revealed worse agreement in parent-sibling pairs, regarding social and emotional health-related quality of life compared with parent-cancer survivor pairs. Such findings remind us that each member of a family will assess the impact of the illness differently and care must be taken to help the siblings heal from the cancer experience as well.