ABSTRACT SUBMISSION HAS NOW CLOSED

Important dates

31 January 2010	Abstract submission closed
10 March 2010	Abstract notification letter sent to applicants

For abstract guidelines click here.

The Executive Scientific Committee is committed to offering a program that offers opportunities for delegates to network, share experience and expertise and develop knowledge and skills. A particular focus is providing workshops and sessions sharing experiences and knowledge across different cultural settings, and in low resource countries and communities. We encourage those working in management of cancer control, program delivery or evaluation, to submit an abstract.

The Committee would like to invite delegates who have interesting case studies, examples and projects to present, to nominate themselves as potential presenters for the Conference through an Abstract Submission.

Authors are invited to submit their abstract following the programme tracks:
1 Cancer prevention and control
2 Cancer treatment
3 Supportive care
4 Tobacco control
5 Cross-track topics

An Abstract is a 250 word summary that describes the case study or example you would like to share. An Abstract Review Committee will then consider all Abstracts received and will invite some nominees to give either a 15 minute oral presentation during a pre-arranged session, or to set up a poster display during the Conference where they can share their case study. If you are successful in your abstract submission, you are required to pay your own travel costs to and during the conference as well as the conference registration fee.

For abstract guidelines click here

Background information on the programme

The programme will show emphasis on systems that distinguishes this Congress from others which focus more exclusively on discovery, and it extends the range of potential delegates to include all those with responsibilities for cancer control. We therefore expect presenters either to focus exclusively on systems for delivering existing knowledge, or at least to speculate upon systematic applications of new knowledge presented in prevention, treatment, palliative care and tobacco control.

Some definitions:
Systems implies some kind of goal-directed organization of patients, professionals, at-risk individuals, or other stakeholders, plus rational allocation of resources appropriate to the cancer control goal. Systems can function at an international, national, regional, institutional, clinic, workplace or classroom level.

Prevention denotes all measures designed to prevent the occurrence of cancer, including individual behaviour change, legislative and policy change to reduce exposure to carcinogenic processes, and even chemo-prevention (if applicable at a population level). Individual health education of a pupil by a teacher and individual smoking cessation advice by a doctor to a patient do not amount to ’systems’ for prevention. However, implementing procedures to ensure health education and smoking cessation advice reliably reach target populations is considered a ‘system’.

Treatment refers to any medical, nursing, allied health professional, supportive, volunteer or carer intervention for the purpose of curing cancer or reducing physical or psychological morbidity. Episodes of cancer care do not in themselves amount to ’systems’ for treatment. However, organizing at the clinic, hospital or higher level that ensures that patients who need a particular treatment (and only those patients) reliably receive it when consulting their doctor is considered a ’system’.

Advocacy for prevention and treatment is always directed at system change and will therefore be a priority at the Congress, as will governance, planning and income generation for cancer control.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION HAS NOW CLOSED

Contact information

UICC Congress Secretariat - Scientific Programme
Tel: +41 22 809 1825 Fax: +41 22 809 1810 Email: secretariat10@uicc.org
Web: http://2010.worldcancercongress.org

If you any questions regarding your on-line abstract submission, please contact uicc2010@mci-group.com  for assistance.