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Breast cancer being one of the common cancer seen nowadays, its treatment leads to many side effects over the health and quality of life of the survivors. High- intensity interval training ( HIIT) has been shown to improve quality of life (QOL) and sleep in breast cancer survivors. The aim of this study was to compare the effects of different types of exercise form, that is circuit training and tabata training ,finding out which one is more useful in improving QOL and sleep in breast cancer patients. Method - Experimental study was conducted over 30 breast cancer survivors between 18 to 40 years which were randomly divided into two groups of circuit training and tabata training after the fulfillment of inclusion criteria. Metastatic cancer and recent surgery ,treatment and injury were excluded.Subjects completing sub-maximal tolerance test (6 min walk test) with RPE below 18 were included in study . Pre exercise QOL was assessed by scale - EORTC qlq -30 for both the groups and sleep by Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index.Subjects of two groups performed exercise for about 5 weeks (1st week mild exercise,2nd moderate exercise and later 3 weeks of HIIT group wise i.e one group tabata training and other one circuit training).After 5 weeks of protocol pre and post results of outcome measures like EORTC- qlq 30 and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index were compared.