Table 1. Demographic characteristics of respondents.

		Canada N = 48	Nepal N = 7
Variable	Categories	Percentage	Percentage
Gender	Man	45.8	42.9
	Woman	54.2	57.1
	I do not identify within the gender binary	0.0	0.0
	I prefer not to disclose gender information	0.0	0.0
Age	<25	0.0	0.0
	25–34	4.2	0.0
	35–44	43.8	100.0
	45–54	18.8	0.0
	55–64	27.1	0.0
	≥65	6.3	0.0
Years in practice	<5	25.0	71.4
	6–10	18.8	14.3
	11–15	12.5	0.0
	16–20	10.4	14.3
	20–25	14.6	0.0
	26–30	10.4	0.0
	>30	8.3	0.0
Current practice setting	Large population centres (>100,000)	95.8	N/A
	Medium population centres (30,000–99,999)	4.2	N/A
	Small population centres (1,000–29,000)	0.0	N/A
	Rural area (<1,000)	0.0	N/A
Current practice setting	Metropolitan	N/A	100.0
	Sub-metropolitan	N/A	0.0
	Municipality	N/A	0.0
	Village Development Committee (VDC)	N/A	0.0
Training setting	Large population centres (>100,000)	100.0	N/A
	Medium population centres (30,000–99,999)	0.0	N/A
	Small population centres (1,000–29,000)	0.0	N/A
	Rural area (<1,000)	0.0	N/A
	Metropolitan	N/A	100.0
	Sub-metropolitan	N/A	0.0
	Municipality	N/A	0.0
	VDC	N/A	0.0
Are you affiliated with a medical college?	Yes	97.9	71.4
	No	2.1	28.6
Current positiona	Medical officer	N/A	0.0
	Senior medical officer	N/A	0.0
	Consultant	N/A	16.7
	Senior consultant	N/A	0.0
	Lecturer	4.2	16.7
	Assistant professor	41.7	16.7
	Associate professor	35.4	33.3
	Professor	12.5	16.7
	Other	6.3	0.0
What is the status of your institution?	Public/Government	93.8	100.0
	Private	0.0	0.0
	Both public and private	0.0	0.0
	Medical college	6.3	0.0
	Other	0.0	0.0
My team is made up of the following care providers.
(Select all that apply)	Nurses	97.9	100.0
	Nurse practitioners	85.4	50.0
	Occupational therapists	31.3	50.0
	Pharmacists	97.9	83.3
	Social workers	83.3	33.3
	Psychologists	39.6	50.0
	Medical oncologists	97.9	83.3
	Radiation oncologists	89.6	50.0
	Surgical oncologists	83.3	83.3
	Haematologists	60.4	66.7
	I do not work in a team	2.1	0.0
	Other:	6.3	16.7
	Clerical, Secretarial, GPO,
	Palliative care/Symptom control
There are regular multi-disciplinary case	Yes	100.0	100.0
Conferences/tumour boards at my institution	No	0.0	0.0

^aPositions are not mutually exclusive, so the sum is greater than 100%