46th Annual Meeting

March 13-15, 2022

Tucson Marriott University Park

For Submission of presented papers and posters at ASPO’s 46th Annual Meeting.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Monday, November 15, 2021 at 11:59 pm EST (notification of acceptance will be mid-January 2022). There is no fee to submit an abstract.

ASPO encourages members and non-members to submit an abstract for consideration as either an oral or poster presentation. All abstracts must be data-driven.

The ASPO 2022 meeting theme is Towards Achieving Health Equity. Speakers and topics will focus on the following areas:

• Cancer Interception: From Concept to Clinic
• Innovations in Patient Navigation: What’s it Going to Take to Achieve Cancer Equity?
• Convergence Epidemiology: Bridging Omics with Social Determinants and Structural Factors
• Re-situating Cancer Control within Public Health and Communities
• Institutional Approaches for Addressing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
• Novel Approaches of and Bias Considerations in Using Electronic Health Records Data in Cancer Control Research
• Challenges and Successful Examples in Cancer Consortia

Abstracts are sought in the following topic areas:

1. Cancer Health Disparities
2. Behavorial Science & Health Communication
3. Early Detection & Risk Prediction
4. Global Cancer Research
5. Lifestyles Behavior, Energy Balance & Chemoprevention
6. Molecular Epidemiology & Environment
7. Survivorship & Health Outcomes/Comparative Effectiveness Research

ASPO abstract review process is:

• The 2022 ASPO Program Committee will review all abstracts and rank them based on a merit scoring system.
• High ranking abstracts will be selected for oral presentation during one of the four proffered paper sessions. At least one of these sessions will be dedicated to studies addressing our theme of health equity.
• The top 16 abstracts will be published in the March 2022 issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention.
• The next 40 top-ranked abstracts will be identified for further judging during the poster session for the ASPO Best Poster award. Top-ranked posters will be considered by the Cancer Disparities SIG to receive the Cancer Disparities Poster Awards.
• Abstracts not chosen for presentation may still be posted on the ASPO website provided the submitter registers for the conference.

Please adhere to the following instructions to receive full consideration:

1. List title of abstract in Title box
2. List authors (last name first initial) in Author box
3. Select relevant topic area(s). You are welcome to select up to two areas.
4. Indicate preference for oral presentation or poster and if the corresponding author is a trainee (pre-doc, post-doc).
5. Provide a structured abstract (up to 2300 characters including spaces) with these sections:
1. Purpose of the study (one sentence if possible);
2. Methods;
3. Results (adequate to support conclusion);
4. Conclusions (Do not use phrases such as “The results will be discussed”).
5. No illustrations are permitted in this section.
6. List 2-3 Key words.

It is NOT possible to save partially completed abstracts. Therefore, we recommend that the complete document be prepared and finalized, then cut and pasted into the appropriate fields. Please note that it will not be possible to edit an abstract after it has been submitted.

**IMPORTANT** If you do not receive a confirmation email (check your spam box also) after submitting your abstract with the text exactly as you submitted, please contact Stephanie Garwood at [email protected]

If your abstract is accepted, the corresponding author (or designated co-author) must register and attend the ASPO conference; otherwise, the abstract will be withdrawn.