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This study aimed to provide insight into German survivors\u2019 care situation, with a particular focus on barriers to follow-up care. We investigated a sample of adult CCS (<jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic> = 633) (age <jats:italic>M<\/jats:italic> = 34.92; <jats:italic>SD<\/jats:italic> = 5.70 years) drawn from the German Childhood Cancer Registry\u2019s oldest cohort (&amp;gt; 25 years after diagnosis). Our analyses included data from a standardized medical examination, a self-report questionnaire, and in-depth interviews with a subsample (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic> = 43). Half of the participants (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic> = 314, 49.6%) reported participating in some kind of medical follow-up. In a logistic regression analysis, attendance of medical follow-up care was associated with higher age. Reasons for non-attendance were assigned to four categories: lack of information about medical follow-up and\/or its purpose (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic> = 178), termination by the health care provider (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic> = 53), structural barriers (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic> = 21), and emotional-motivational aspects (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic> = 17). The interviews contributed to a better understanding of how these reported barriers played out in the care of individual survivors. Further, they revealed that some survivors currently in medical follow-up had had periods without follow-up care in the past\u2014which were also in many cases related to a lack of information, both on the part of health care providers and CCS themselves. The results indicated that a large proportion of long-term CCS do not receive the recommended follow-up care. Further, there is a great need for more information regarding the aims of long-term medical follow-up and available offers. 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