[The religious orthodox family in the pediatric hemato-oncology department].

Background: Extensive research has been conducted on the subject of cultural influences on behaviors, attitudes, beliefs and interpersonal relations of patients in the medical world. Cancer is a life-threatening illness and the intense emotional reactions to it enhance the influence of subcultural behaviors and attitudes towards the illness, the treatments and towards the medical staff.

Aims: This paper aims to describe what happens at the encounter between the medical subculture, which is mainly secular, and the orthodox subculture, of the child treated for cancer and his family.