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72 childhood cancer survivors and 32 sibling controls; about half were male.
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Cohort
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May warrant fitness monitoring in pediatric cancer survivors; leaves open whether interventions improve outcomes.
Long-term survivors of pediatric cancer, particularly females, demonstrate reduced exercise capacity compared to sibling controls, which is associated with factors such as older age, higher body fat, and prior methotrexate exposure.
Miller et al. (2012) studied this question.
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