The 78th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cancer Association

Conflict of Interest

Disclosure of Conflict of Interest (Required) :

Instruction of Disclosure of COI at the annual meetings of the JCA.

✱ Please click above and confirm the detailed rules of COI.

State whether or not the lead presenter and the responsible researcher, their spouse, family related in the first degree, or people who share income/property with them have or have had a conflict of interest with a company or an organization related to the presentation subject over the 3 year period prior to registration of the abstract. If there has been a state of conflict of interest, state the details. The “responsible researcher” in general denotes persons such as the Principle Investigator of the research laboratory or the Corresponding Author in the case of submission of an original research paper to a journal.
JCA may penalize the presenters in the event of failure to disclose COI, in accordance with its disciplinary code.

If the Lead presenter is NOT the Responsible researcher, the Lead presenter must complete the COI disclosure form on behalf of the Responsible researcher.

In order to complete the COI disclosure declaration, please click on the link on the last screen that appears after submitting the abstract. The abstract submission No. and password will be issued on the last page and you will also find the link there to the COI disclosure form.

If the Lead presenter is NOT the Responsible researcher and you fail to submit the COI disclosure form on behalf of the Responsible researcher, your abstract will NOT be reviewed by the organizer.

How to disclose your COI

Oral presentation

If there is any COI, the oral presenter should use the disclosure slide to present COI after the title slide, in order to clarify the names of companies and/or associations in question. If there is no COI, the presenter should indicate ‘I/We have no financial relationships to disclose.' as such on the sample slide.

Poster presentation

If there is any COI, the poster presenter should disclose the names of companies and/or associations in question at the bottom area of the poster. If there is no COI, the presenter should indicate ‘I/We have no financial relationships to disclose.’ as such on the sample slide.

COI disclosure slide samples

If the lead presenter is the responsible researcher, choose the sample slide 1. If the lead presenter is NOT the responsible researcher, choose the sample slide 2 and prepare each COI disclosure slide on behalf of the responsible researcher.

1) Lead presenter is the responsible researcher

2) Lead presenter is NOT the responsible researcher

For inquiries concerning COI