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Kat Earley's son Cohen was diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma, aged four. She writes about how staying active wherever possible played a crucial role in his wellbeing both during and after treatment.

Tom Fletcher, specialist paediatric exercise therapist at Sheffield Children’s Hospital

Debbi Rowley (left) and Lucy Waller (right) are physiotherapists at Sheffield Children’s Foundation Trust and Great Ormond Street Hospital, respectively. Here, they offer advice on things to consider before starting physical activity and tell us about some of the initiatives happening across the UK to help children with cancer move more.

Dr Peter Wright, Hayley Marriott and Dr Alba Solera-Sanchez, researchers at Oxford Brookes University, explain the benefits of staying physically active during and after treatment and explore how we can work collaboratively to improve physical activity pathways and support for children and young people.

Jake Heasman was diagnosed with a brain tumour when he was two years old, leaving him visually impaired. He tells us how his experiences of cancer helped drive him on to sporting success.

Promoting physical activity in childhood cancer survivors: Using qualitative and co-design methods to inform the development of an evidence-based intervention.

Matt Redwood, from Wiveliscombe, took on the first of an endurance-testing trilogy in Luxembourg last month in support of Jack’s Journey, which raises money for research into Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH), a rare cancer that affects around 50 children a year in the UK.

Gemma Hebbron scaled the UK’s tallest sculpture, the 80 metre-high ArcelorMittal Orbit in London, for Thomas Fight TALL, a Special Named Fund at Children’s Cancer and Leukaemia Group (CCLG) that raises money for research into childhood leukaemias.