Call for Abstracts

Call For Abstracts

We are calling out to health care professionals and consumers to present their research in best practice survivorship care at the 4th Victorian Cancer Survivorship Conference.

The conference theme is “Shifting Gears: Rethinking Survivorship.” The conference theme acknowledges significant progress in research and practice improvement. It will consider next steps and recognise the importance of broad partnerships to achieve optimal outcomes.

Suggested topics for abstract submission may include, but are not limited to:

• Better integration of survivorship and palliative care; living with incurable disease
• Efforts to identify survivorship issues and needs, including the use of patient reported outcomes
• Efforts to improve care for caregivers and family members
• Emerging survivorship groups, including those treated with immunotherapy or targeted treatments
• Equity in access, care and outcomes; including disadvantaged and at risk groups
• Identifying and managing late effects
• Improving the functional and mental health outcomes of survivors, including use of prehabilitation and rehabilitation
• International perspective on survivorship
• Measuring the quality of survivorship care
• Novel models of survivorship care, including supported self-management
• Survivorship changes as a result of COVID-19, including use of telehealth
• Transitions of survivorship care

Abstracts can be submitted for oral, rapid fire or poster presentation consideration. Please note that some requests for oral presentations may need to be moved to rapid fire or poster presentations

Awards

Awards will be presented for the Best Oral, Best Poster and Best Presentation by a Student

Presentation Types

1. Oral Presentation – Each oral presentation will be for a total of 15 minutes (including 5 minutes for questions).
2. Rapid Fire Presentation – A five minute presentation plus two minutes for questions
3. Digital Poster Presentation – Digital Posters will be displayed for viewing through the OnAir platform.  Digital posters should consist of a maximum of five slides plus additional 2 slides (1 is the title slide of presentation and 1 is an end acknowledgement slide) with a three minute recording.  There will be dedicated time within the program and a poster prize will be offered.  Information on creation of digital posters will be available upon acceptance of the abstract.

Presentation types apply common Submission Guidelines. Authors will be prompted to indicate their preferred presentation type during the submission process. Authors of accepted papers may be offered an alternate presentation type based on reviewer and Program Committee discretion of appropriateness and program availability.

Review Process

All abstracts that have been submitted before the deadline will undergo peer review. Abstracts must:

• Be 300 words or less
• Align with the Conference theme
• Align with the aim of promoting best practice in comprehensive cancer care
• Be engaging and enhance the conference
• Show evidence of having thought carefully about the topic, including an awareness of its implications to practice and the consumer
• Demonstrate quality – clarity, readability and sufficiency of the information
• Abstracts should be structured using these headings : Background or Aims / Method / Results / Conclusion or Implications

Accepted abstracts may be published online prior to the conference. Accepted abstracts must be presented by one of the authors. All presenters must register and pay the appropriate fee to attend.

Review Criteria

Significance – The topic is significant, important, or relevant to the Victorian Cancer Survivorship Conference.
Purpose – The purpose clearly describes the research and practice initiatives. The rationale should be logical and supported by clinical information.
Methodology – The method utilized to evaluate the research is appropriate and robust.
Evaluation – The research goals are evaluated according to specific measures. The outcomes are applicable to cancer survivorship.
Impact – The abstract captures something relevant, tangible and applicable. Suggestions for translation of knowledge is provided.
Quality – The abstract is well written. The ideas are clearly communicated.