After medical school at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, Egidio Del Fabbro completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Barnes Jewish Hospital, St. Louis in 1998. Following 5 years of internal medicine practice he completed a palliative care fellowship at MD AndersonCancer Center. In his current position as Assistant Professor in the Palliative Care and Rehabilitation department and co-director of the Cachexia clinic at MD Anderson the goal is to increase the awareness of conditions affecting the quality of life of cancer patients such as poor appetite, fatigueand testosterone deficiency. He is the Principal Investigator of two prospective clinical intervention trials… including melatonin for appetite in patients with cancer and multimodality therapy for cachexia. He is funded by the American Cancer Society to explore the effect of testosterone replacementin male patients with advanced cancer and serves on scientific committees at national and international conferences. Eduardo Bruera, MD, is Chair of the Department of Palliative Care and Rehabilitation Medicine and holds the F. T. McGraw Chair in the Treatment of Cancer at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. Dr. Bruera is Vice President of the International Association of Hospice and Palliative Care. He is a member of the editorial board of several pain, palliative care, and cancer journals. He has received a number of national and international awards forhis clinical and research commitment to the management of pain and other symptoms. Dr. Bruera's research has focused on clinical trials of pain and other symptoms, and health services research regarding supportive and palliative care. Dr Demark-Wahnefried is a nutrition scientist whose researchspans basic science studies focused on determining the role of food-related components on cancer progression, to clinical research that involves nutrition-related concerns of cancer patients, as well as determining effective lifestyle interventions that improve the overall health of cancer survivorsand their families. Her laboratory has conducted some of the largest studies exploring metabolic and body composition changes in response to cancer treatment. In 2003 she was named Komen Professor of Survivorship for her work in energy balance and breast cancer. An area of research in which she hasparticular expertise is in the delivery of home-based lifestyle interventions, where she has led and continues to lead several NIH-funded trials to improve the diet and exercise behaviors of cancer survivors. She also has actively contributed to national guidelines for cancer survivors (e.g.,Institute of Medicine and the American Cancer Society). Dr Bowling qualified at St Bartholomew's Medical School, University of London, in 1986. After a variety of junior posts, he was appointed as a research fellow with Professor David Silk at the Central Middlesex Hospital. For his MD thesis helooked at the in vivo human colonic responses to intragastric and intraduodenal enteral feeding. For this work he was awarded the Sir David Cuthbertson Research Medal. In 1996 he was appointed as a Consultant in Gastroenterology at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire. He started amultidisciplinary nutrition support team, which introduced various innovative practices, that have since been copied by many other UK hospital teams. In 2003 he took up his current post in Nottingham as a Gastroenterologist and running a regional intestinal failure unit. He is clinical lead fornutrition at the Nottingham University Hospitals and leads the nutrition support team. Jane Hopkinson is a Macmillan Post Doctoral Research Fellow, who specialises in the study of supportive and palliative care for people with cancer. She is a nurse who worked clinically in the fields of cancer andpalliative care prior to becoming a full-time academic seven years ago. Since 2002, her research has been investigating the problems of li