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Evidence for physical activity strategies sustained over long periods to improve quality of life is limited. Given the limited feasibility of a randomized trial to answer this question, we emulated a target trial of physical activity strategies based on current clinical guidelines and 6-year quality of life using observational data from 1549 men in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study diagnosed with nonmetastatic prostate cancer between 2004 and 2016. Eligible individuals were free of conditions that may preclude high levels of physical activity at baseline. We estimated 6-year mean physical quality of life scores (based on the Expanded Prostate Cancer Index Composite for Clinical Practice [EPIC-CP] symptom domains; range: 1-12, lower is better) under sustained, dynamic physical activity strategies, adjusting for baseline and time-varying variables using the parametric g-formula. 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