Abstract: This paper introduces the concepts of family resilience, describes the development process, assessment content, applicable population, scoring methods, reliability and validity, as well as application status of commonly used assessment tools for family resilience of cancer patients, aiming to provide guidance for clinical staff to select targeted family resilience assessment tools for different groups of people. Meanwhile, this paper also provides references for researchers to develop targeted family resilience assessment tools for cancer patients.

Key words: cancer; family resilience; assessment tools; literature review