Associations between leisure‐time physical activity and health‐related quality of life among adolescent and adult survivors of childhood cancers

Objective: Survivors of childhood cancer are at an increased risk for reduced quality of life (QOL), yet few studies have explored factors associated with improving health‐related QOL (HRQOL) in this population. We thus explored the relationship between physical activity (PA) and HRQOL among survivors of childhood cancer.

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