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2003 Cancer Conference
September 15-18, 2003 — Atlanta, GA
Online Submission Deadline: Midnight, Pacific Time, February 24, 2003
Selection Notifications will be emailed by April 4, 2003
Comprehensive Approaches to Cancer Control: The Public Health Role
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General Submission Guidelines
- Abstracts should focus on the role of public health in cancer prevention, early detection, treatment, rehabilitation, and palliation issues.
- We invite both programmatic and scientific abstracts.
- Programmatic abstracts describe the development and/or implementation of a program, coalition, other public health initiative for cancer prevention and early detection, program evaluation effort, educational initiative or a communications or outreach/inreach project.
- Scientific (research) abstracts describe the use of qualitative or quantitative research methods to answer a research question.
- Abstracts must be in English.
- Abstracts should describe original work.
- An individual may submit more than one abstract.
- Both oral or poster presentations are allowed. Oral presentations will be 15 minutes in length with an additional 5 minutes allotted for questions and answers.
- The submitter is strongly encouraged to compose the abstract text in his/her own word processor before submitting it online. Be sure to check spelling, word count, and conformance with the guidelines given below.
- Final acceptance is conditional upon registration of all presenters.
Abstract Requirements
- The abstract text must conform to a standard structure, including each of the headings listed below, depending on the form of the abstract (scientific or programmatic). Each heading should be followed by a colon.
Scientific Abstracts
- Background/Purpose
- Study Design
- Study Population & Setting
- Method of Analysis
- Findings
- Conclusions
- Implications for Cancer Control and Early Detection
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Programmatic Abstracts
- Program Purpose
- Assessment of Need
- Strategies
- Evaluation Approach
- Program Outcomes
- Implications for Practitioners
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- In total, the abstract text must contain no more than 275 words. No images, charts, or tables are allowed.
- For each presenter please provide: name, degrees, job title and mailing address, email address, phone number, fax number,
education,
professional experience,
and
conflict of interest disclosure,
- For all other authors you need only provide name and email address.
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For more information, please contact:
info@cancerconference.net
or see Cancer Conference home page
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