POSTER PRINTING

New poster printing service for Barcelona 2007

The official World GI Cancer Congress web-based platform to print session posters and to develop an exclusive virtual exhibition hall for Barcelona 2007.

This unique service receives via internet, checks, prints and then delivers your poster to the Congress venue, thus guaranteeing that all posters arrive in perfect condition. A Helpline is available in English, French and Spanish to solve technical difficulties. Never before has producing a professional-looking poster been so straightforward.

All posters and oral presentations sent via this platform will also be displayed on Barcelona 2007's virtual exhibition hall for 3 months, where they may be consulted and printed.

Don't carry your poster on the plane – Entrust your poster to the experts and pick it up in Barcelona.

Abstract submission deadline ended on 15 February 2007.

Participants interested in presenting data should submit abstracts online by 15 February 2007. Abstracts are subject to acceptance by the Scientific Committee. Once accepted, abstracts will be published in a supplement of Annals of Oncology and scheduled for oral or poster presentation. Acceptance notifications and guidelines for poster presentation will be sent on 3 April 2007. Authors of accepted abstracts who have not registered will have until 17 April 2007 to do so at the rate of € 565. After this date, abstracts without registered presenters will be disregarded and not included in the publication.

Abstracts will be accepted in the following categories, and the author should indicate it as either BASIC or CLINICAL, by checking the appropriate box in the online submission system:

• Colon Cancer
• Esophageal Cancer
• Gastric Cancer
• Liver Cancer
• Pancreatic Cancer
• Rectal Cancer
• Other

Abstract Guidelines

• Follow the online instructions
• Abstracts must be written in English
• The submitted work must not, nor will not have been:
  • published in any journal, or on any web site before
    July 1, 2007, nor
  • presented at any national or international scientific conference prior to July 1, 2007
• Accepted format: Word document format, 9 point Arial font, 500 word count limit
• Use a concise title
• List affiliations of author(s) as briefly as possible, with city, province and country
• Use standard and well-accepted abbreviations
• When using references, use standard and well-accepted formats
• Abstract content should be single-spaced and typed in
  lower case
• Abstracts shall be of original research and contain a concise statement of study aim
• Please include and indicate in bold the following four (4) parts of your abstract: Background, Method, Results, and Conclusion(s). Conclusions must be supported by your results and summarized within your abstract at the time of submission. Results “to be completed” and/or conclusions “to be discussed” are not acceptable.

We inform poster presenters that the correct measurements for sending poster files for printing in PowerPoint are 130 x 80cm, LANDSCAPE (PowerPoint will not accept larger measurements). You must configure your poster to these dimensions in “Page Set-up”. The posters will then be enlarged and printed 150 x 90cm, the official Barcelona 2007 measurements. PosterSessionOnline will be happy to answer queries on this subject. customer@postersessiononline.es.

Developing Nations Travel Awards
Fifteen (15) travel awards are available for investigators from developing nations. Awards are available to investigators from the countries indicated in the 2006 World Bank List of Economies as Low-Income or Lower Middle Income Economies. The complete list can be found at http://web.worldbank.org.

These awards will consist of Congress registration and a check for €1500 to cover airfare and hotel, given to the recipient at the Congress. Airfare can be purchased by Imedex and deducted from this amount, if needed. If you have questions about this information, please contact Imedex.

How to Apply for Developing Nations* Travel Awards:
1. The candidate must submit an abstract to the 9th World Congress on Gastrointestinal Cancer in the usual manner, indicating that the abstract is to be considered for the Developing Nations Award.

2. The candidate must be the first author of the
submitted abstract.

3. The work must not have been presented or published before the date of the 9th World Congress on Gastrointestinal Cancer.

4. Abstracts must be submitted on schedule.

5. Candidates should submit:

• An extended abstract
• A Curriculum Vitae
• A 1-3 page description of their interests and current research in Gastrointestinal Cancer, signed and approved by their department chair.

The Educational Committee will select the award winners on the basis of the scientific content of the abstract. Winners will be
notified in April 2007.