[Family-oriented after-care as a means of rehabilitation and secondary prevention for children with cancer and their families].

In a prospective longitudinal study 44 families, where one child had a cancer disease, were questioned about the effect of family oriented change in the physical condition of the patients and their parents, improvement of the psychic state of health of the patients and their brothers and sisters, improvement of the measured depressive general attitude of the fathers and mothers and a positive change in the relationship between the spouses. Apart from the medical aftercare the spare-time and pedagogical offers of the clinics where the most appreciated and the most frequented by the parents and the children.