Background
cancer, cancers
CANCER, CANCERS
In the past decades, five-year overall survival rates for childhood and Adolescent and Young Adults (AYA) cancer survivors have increased to 86% [It is of utmost importance to provide childhood and AYA cancers survivors with effective interventions and rehabilitation- or health promotion programs during their survivorship to support them in meeting physical, psychological, and social challenges. A systematic review and meta-analysis of psychosocial interventions for AYA cancer survivors demonstrated that technology-based as well as psycho-educational, multi-component and physical exercise interventions have very small and non-significant effects in this target group [Given the multitude of chronic health issues among childhood and AYA cancer survivors and given that there are few interventions that have the potential to impact on multiple factors, we developed and piloted a multi-component health promotion intervention: The Wilderness program for childhood, Adolescent and Young Adults (WAYA) program [Exposure to nature has shown to positively affect our health and well-being [