Association of Exercise With Mortality in Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Adult survivors of childhood cancer are at excess risk for mortality compared with the general population. Whether exercise attenuates this risk is not known.

Objective

To examine the association between vigorous exercise and change in exercise with mortality in adult survivors of childhood cancer.

Design, setting, and participants

Multicenter cohort analysis among 15 450 adult cancer survivors diagnosed before age 21 years from pediatric tertiary hospitals in the United States and Canada between 1970 and 1999 enrolled in the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study, with follow-up through December 31, 2013.

Exposures

Self-reported vigorous exercise in metabolic equivalent task (MET) hours per week. The association between vigorous exercise and change in vigo

SUBMITTER: Scott JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6181767 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature