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6 Health and Social Research Center, Universidad de Castilla La-Mancha, Cuenca, Spain Objective To examine the predictive validity of field-based muscular strength tests in relation to incident ...

Objectives To examine the association between muscle strength and cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) with all-cause and cancer-specific mortality in patients diagnosed with cancer, and whether these ...