Abstract submissions are NOW CLOSED!
Deadline extended to November 25, 2008
All submissions must be made online by November 11, 2008. Successful submissions will be notified by January 15, 2009. The Abstract Review Committee will offer oral or poster sessions to successful submissions. Oral presentations are 15 minute presentations within break-out workshops. Poster sessions are static displays that will be displayed in two sessions held during the conference.
The Conference is committed to providing information relevant to breast cancer consumers and health professionals in all countries and regions of the world, from high and low resource communities, and at a local, small, medium and large organizational level.
Abstracts are sought that offer case studies showcasing initiatives in:
- - High and low resource communities
- - Diverse cultural and country situations
- - Small local initiatives, as well as medium and large organizations and programs
You may submit one or more abstracts that address the following topics:
- 1. Advocacy
Advocacy is the process of overcoming major structural (as opposed to individual or behavioural) barriers to public health goals. For example, speaking, acting or writing as part of a campaign to change public health policy – increase access to breast cancer screening, support, treatments, or drugs; or inform and influence research agendas.
Case studies are sought that show how small local groups, or medium to large organisations, in a range of cultural and resource settings, have worked to change government, health agency policy or research in relation to breast cancer issues.
- 2. Capacity Building
Capacity building activities strengthen the knowledge, abilities, skills and behaviour of individuals and improve institutional structures and processes so that organisations can efficiently meet their mission and goals in a sustainable way.
Case studies are sought that show how small local groups, or medium to large organisations, in a range of cultural and resource settings, have built the capacity of their programs. This can include training, sustainability, and development of human resources; as well as ways in which they have generated the financial resources to support their programs such as fundraising events and campaigns, sponsorships, grants or other means.
- 3. Education and Awareness
Education and awareness campaigns aim to influence individual or behavioural barriers to achieving breast cancer goals. For example, raising awareness of early detection programs such as breast self-examination, mammograms; or awareness of resources available to women diagnosed with breast cancer – such as newly diagnosed, young women, women with advanced/secondary/metastatic breast cancer.
Case studies are sought that show how small local groups, or medium to large organisations, in a range of cultural and resource settings, have implemented education and awareness programs.
- 4. Peer Support
Peer support generally describes the help provided by a woman who has already lived through breast cancer to another woman who has been more recently diagnosed with breast cancer. This can include peer support groups, one-on-one peer support programs, telephone and internet based projects. This also could include peer support programs for partners, families and men diagnosed with breast cancer.
Case studies are sought that show how small local groups, or medium to large organisations, in a range of cultural and resource settings, have implemented peer support programs.
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.
If you have specific questions, please email.
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