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Abstracts Submission Instructions

Researchers from Population-based Cancer Registries of latin countries and from ENCR member states are invited to submit abstracts for oral communications and posters of the GRELL-ENCR Scientific Meeting.

We ask authors to follow these instructions scrupulously to facilitate the compilation of abstracts.

Instructions for authors

1. The abstract must be written in English.
2. The title of the abstract should contain no more than 120 characters (including spaces).
3. A maximum of 10 authors belonging to up to five different institutions should be specified. The authors will be separated by semicolon(;), indicating name and surname, without indication of the academic title (see example below).
4. The body of the abstract should contain no more than 2000 characters (including spaces).
5. The abstract should include the following parts: Objectives, Methods, Results and Conclusions.
6. The abstract should not contain any table or figure, nor references.
7. The abstract must be submitted using the form available below.
8. Authors may indicate a preference for the type of presentation: Poster or Oral communication. Participants who are going to present an oral communication will be asked for consent to broadcast the communication via streaming (audio and slides).
9. If the abstract is accepted, at least one if the authors must be registered at the conference.
10. Presenters need to attend the conference in person
11. Abstracts will be evaluated by a Scientific Committee which will decide the acceptance of contributions and the mode of presentation.
12. Notification of acceptance or rejection of the abstract will be sent to the author indicated for correspondence, up to two weeks after the deadline for submission.

Themes for Abstract Submission

•  Social inequalities and cancer
• Age and cancer
• Cure and care
• Survival
• Epidemiological/clinical use of cancer registry data
• Data quality
• New methods, innovation, and AI applications
• Cancer Etiology
• Screening
• Results from new cancer registries
• Environmental and occupational exposure and cancer
• Strategies to enhance timeliness on cancer registries

Best oral and poster communication awards

The best oral communication and the poster presented at the meeting by a young (under 35 years old) GRELL researcher will be awarded a prize consisting on the fees reimbursement.

Each contribution will be assessed independently by two reviewers. Only contributions aiming to issues inherent to population cancer registries will be accepted.

We seek to ensure a maximum representation of cancer registries of Latin languages countries accredited or in process of accreditation.

Multiple contributions from the same institution will be evaluated on the basis of the relevance of the topics covered and the availability of oral communications.

Grants GRELL

In the last years it has been possible to request financial aid to participate at the “Ascension Reunion” GRELL’s annual meeting.

The elegible persons are mainly young researchers or recent cancer registry groups representants from latin language countries and/or other participant countries. Our goal is to give young researchers the opportunity to show their research and their work in order to integrate our scientific community. Other situations might also be considered.
The deadline for submitting grant applications is the same as the deadline for submitting abstracts.

To apply, download the application form below, and send it to:

info@grell-network.org

Grants ENCR

The European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) is sponsoring the GRELL-ENCR Scientific Meeting 2025, covering part of the organisation and catering.

A limited budget is available for financial support to cover for travel and/or accommodation of participants with an accepted scientific abstract, coming from cancer registries that are part of the European Network of Cancer Registries.

Please note that the JRC cannot support the registration fee to the GRELL-ENCR Scientific Meeting.

Support may be requested by filling in this application form. If the number of requests for financial support will exceed the available budget, preference will be given according to the conditions below:

• Applicant submitted an abstract to the conference (not necessarily as 1st author)
• Applicant affiliated with a ENCR cancer registry
• Applicant coming from a lower-income European country
• a single applicant per Organisation
• date of application received

Depending on the number of requests, support may be restricted to travel or accommodation.

Please complete the application in English. All relevant information should be included in the electronic form.

Best oral and poster communication awards

The best oral communication and the poster presented each year at the GRELL meeting by a young (under 35 years old) researcher are awarded a prize consisting on the fees reimbursement for that year’s Meeting.

The presentations are evaluated by a Sub-Committee elected from the members of the Scientific Committee of the GRELL, composed of at least three members from different countries.

Best ENCR Poster Awards