that provides Palliative and Hospice Care and Education to marginalized patients and elderlies in the Philippines. Prior to returning to her country of birth, she enjoyed a successful academic and clinical career at the University of Alabama at Birmingham as a faculty member at the School of Nursing and as an Associate Scientist at the University\'s Comprehensive Cancer Center. She also served as a content/curriculum developer for the St. Jude Children\'s Research Hospital/International Outreach Program educational website (www. Cure4Kids.org). Her experiences include being an Item Writer and committee member for the Bias Sensitivity Review Committee of the National Council of State Boards of Nursing. She has co-authored in nursing management and palliative care textbooks. She has received several awards including the Oncology Nursing Society\'s Pearl Moore Making aDifference and the ELNEC Pediatric Education awards. Ayda can be reached at <anambayan@yahoo.com>.

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Susan Williamson, PhD, RN, is a Senior Research Fellow in the Cancer, Supportive and Palliative Care Research Group School in the School of Health Sciences at the University of Central Lancashire. She qualified as a nurse in 1978 and was awarded her PhD from the University of Manchester in 2001. She has a history of work in applied health care research, focused on identifying and meeting the psychosocial, information and support needs of people who have been diagnosed and treated for cancer. This has led to the implementation of nurse-led interventions which fit well with the aim of the National Cancer Survivorship Initiative in the UK "*to ensure that those living with and beyond cancer get