Poster Abstract Submissions
Dear Researchers,
We are ready to show you off to the delegates at the BC Cancer Agency Annual Cancer Conference Poster Session! Just submit any poster abstract you have already presented in the last year or the abstract for your new work.
Categories for 2011
- Population Health and Health Services
(Research on cancer at a population level, e.g. research on environmental risk factors, health economics, quality of life, education, supportive care, policy, ethics and qualitative issues) - Translation/Clinical
(Research aimed at translating basic discoveries into clinical application, e.g. evaluating the clinical utility of new biomarkers, technologies, therapies and quality of life assessments through clinical trials and outcomes analyses) - Biology and Informatics
(Basic research, e.g. mechanism of pathogenesis, technology development, candidate biomarker and target discovery, data management.)
Abstract Submission Information
Deadline: September 15, 2011
All abstracts must be submitted by this date. Accepted abstracts will be published in the high-quality, Programme and abstract booklet with poster information and contact details.
Notification and Presentation:
The Scientific Committee will review abstracts and notification of acceptance/rejection will be sent via e-mail to the presenting author by Tuesday October 11, 2011. If you have not received notification by this date, please contact the poster coordinator at abstracts@bccancer.bc.ca.
Accepted presenting authorsmust register online for the conference and must be prepared to attend a viewing and judging event, 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm, Friday, December 2, 2011, and possibly present their poster orally at the conference. Presenters may also be requested to attend the Awards Banquet on December 2, 2011. You will be emailed with additional information by October 11, 2011.
Poster Awards:
All posters in each of the categories will be considered for a poster award. Judging is based on scientific merit, visual presentation and significance of the research.
Registration:
You are required to register if your abstract is accepted. Submitting an abstract does not mean that you are automatically registered for the meeting! Please register at (online registration).
BC Cancer Agency Multimedia Services:
If you require the assistance of BC Cancer Agency Multi-Media Services in the preparation and/or printing of your poster, the final deadline for submission of work to their department is Tuesday, November 1, 2011. No poster work or print orders will be accepted by Multi-Media after this date.
Poster Abstract Submission
Step 1
Please read the attached instructions before proceeding to Step 2.
Step 2
Submit your poster abstract using our online form.
2010 Poster Award Winners
Population Health and Health Services
Ian Cromwell, Cost-Effectiveness of Erlotinib in the Second- and Third-Line Treatment of Advanced State Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer
Mary McBride, Adherence to Recommended Follow-up Tests by Childhood and Adolescent Cancer Survivors in British Columbia, Canada
Diego Villa, Cost-Effectiveness of the Addition of Bevacizumab to First-Line Chemotherapy in Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
Oral Poster Presentation - Population Health and Health Services
Shi Yuan Jiang, Overall survival of locally advanced esophageal cancer before and after the introduction of f18 fdg-pet/ct imaging in British Columbia
Translation/Clinical
Morteza Bashash, The Prognostic Effect of Ethnicity for Esophageal Cancer: The Population-Based Experience in British Columbia, Canada
Fred Cao, A Novel Approach for Craniospinal Irradiation Using a Three-Isocentre IMRT Plan with Field Junctions
Darlene Tam,
Screening Reduces Time Delay to Diagnosis of High-Risk Oral Lesions
Oral Poster Presentation - Translation/Clinical
Michael Short, Endoscopic laser raman spectroscopy for reducing false positive biopsies of autofluorescence bronchoscopy
Biology and Informatics
Amal El-Naggar, Y-Box Binding Protein-1 is a Major Contributor to Sarcoma Cell Motility and Aggressiveness
Katey Enfield, Deletion and Hypermethylation of a Tumor Suppressor Gene EYA4 in 6Q23-25 is Associated with Lung Cancer Risk and Poor Survival
Paul McDonald, Targeting Tumor Hypoxia: Suppression of Breast Tumor Growth and Metastasis by Inhibition of Carbonic Anhydrase 1X
Oral Poster Presentation - Biology and Informatics
Olena Morozova, Comparative analysis of primary tumors and metastases-derived tumor-initiating cells provides insights into neuroblastoma progression
Please contact to abstracts@bccancer.bc.ca if you have any questions.
Those coming together include: medical and community oncologists, community and oncology nurses, nursing students, pharmacists, scientists, researchers, research students, surgeons, radiation oncologists, medical physicists, pediatric oncologists, functional imaging specialists, nutritionists, psychosocial professionals, pathologists, palliative care specialists, medical ethicists and cancer control senior leaders and administrators throughout BC. and beyond.