But some of them were amazed to find that the children had known all along that there was something very serious going on, but hadn't known what it was until the mother had actually told them. |
Even the very young ones knew that cancer could kill you and they didn't differentiate between different types of cancers, at all. Cancer was cancer and it involved a threat of death. |
We were building on work done earlier, in which women with early breast cancer were interviewed, and it was discovered that talking to their children about their disease contributed to their distress. |