Before you begin, please prepare the following information
- Presenting author's contact details:
- Full first and family name(s)
- Email address
- Affiliation details: department, institution/hospital, city, state (if relevant), country
- Phone number
- Author and Co-authors' details
- Preferred Presentation type: Oral /Poster Presentation.
- Abstract title – must be in UPPER CASE and limited to 25 words. Please submit symbols as words.
- Abstract text – limited to 300 words including acknowledgements.
- Abstract category– select the abstract category from the list provided: Hematology/ Oncology /InPHOG/ Nursing /HSCT
- One table or figure is allowed and included in the main text.
- Abstracts should clearly state:
- Background and Aims
- Methods
- Results
- Conclusions
- Use only standard abbreviations. Abbreviations must be consistent with instructions to authors of the Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Journal (PHOJ) and be defined on 1st usage, then use of the abbreviation alone is OK, i.e., Wilms Tumor (WT), then referred to as “WT” in subsequent mentions. Please use as few abbreviations as possible and only commonly used abbreviations.
- Disease names should be written without apostrophes, for example: Wilms tumour, Burkitt lymphoma, Hodgkin disease, etc. Please do not refer to patients by their diseases, e.g. 'Wilms tumour patients' or ALL patients'. Instead, identify them as 'patients with Wilms tumour; and 'patients with ALL'.
- Submissions may not contain patient names, hospital ID numbers or other identifying information.
- Use generic names of drugs. The presentation must be balanced and contain no commercial promotional content.
- Numbers over 999 must include a comma, e.g., 2,000.
- Decimal points must be displayed as periods (4.89), not commas (4,89).
- Numbers beginning with a decimal point should be preceded by a zero.
- Periods should be used in numbers for decimal points, not commas, i.e. P=0.015
- All measurements must be in metric units.
- Do not begin sentences with a number – type the number in full, for example, it should be 'Three patients….' Instead of '3 patients….'.
- Do not use expressions such as 'On the other hand……'; 'This is the first study….'; 'To our knowledge…..'; 'This is the largest….'.
- Abstracts stating “data will be discussed in the presentation” will NOT be accepted.
- Click on the SUBMIT button at the end of the process to save your abstract. You may log in to the system later to make changes to your abstract, up to the submission deadline. After the deadline, changes will not be possible.
- You will receive an abstract reference number via email after you have submitted your abstract. Please refer to this abstract number in all correspondence regarding the abstract.
- Please contact us at abstracts@phocon2025.com if you have not received confirmation that your abstract has been submitted.
- Please do not submit multiple copies of the same abstract.
Selection Process
- All abstracts will be evaluated anonymously and scored by the appropriate Scientific Committee
- The Scientific Committee will determine whether the abstract will be accepted for oral or poster presentation, with consideration given to the author's preference.