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癌症如何影响您？有您的经验you to find a creative outlet as a method of support and strength? We are looking for poets, whether first-time or experienced, to submit their work. This competition is driven by the efforts to join in awareness about how cancer affects a survivor, a patient–their surrounding family and friends–as well as the doctors and researchers involved in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.

Winners will have their poems promoted widely to the cancer research community through BMC news, mailing outlets and at suitable conferences in 2019.

Opening date: Monday 4 February 2019
Closing date: Thursday 4 April 2019
Winners will be announced on: Thursday 2 May 2019

提交
Any poem (in any style) on the topic of cancer or cancer research can be submitted to the competition. Submitters can be from any occupational background. Please submit only one poem per submitter.

Prizes
Two winners will be announced. Judging will be based on originality, creativity, and the overall compelling writing style.

• Winning entries will be published on theOncology Open Access Research BMC web pageand on such promotional outlets as determined by the Promoter alongside the winner’s name, geographic location and a short biography. Winners can also opt in or opt out of having their picture published alongside the poem.
• TheBioMed Central Blog Network还将与比赛的获奖者一起发布问答，他们有机会扩大自己的诗歌和创作过程。

How to submit
It’s easy. First ensure that your poem conforms to the guidelines below*. Then please submit your poem using thisform. Mandatory fields are marked with an asterisk.

*GUIDelines for entry
One poem per entry, maximum length 250 words, including title, on one page**.
**页面的规格：

• Standard 1’’ margins
• Single spaced
• 12 point font in Arial
• 可接受的文件格式是.docor.docx.

All submitted work must be original, previously unpublished, and not awaiting publication anywhere. Previously published is considered to be any appearance in print or online, including on or in a newspaper, newsletter, magazine, anthology, chapbook, book, website, electronic magazine, personal blog, Twitter, Facebook, etc.

这项比赛不向BMC分支机构开放。BMC分支机构包括主持人，部分编辑，副编辑，执行编辑以及Springer Nature或其任何子公司所雇用的任何个人。bob游戏平台

Entries will be blind judged. To assure anonymity please不要put your name on your poem in the file or in the file name. Only the title of your piece should be in the file name e.g. “Title of Poem_Date Submitted.”

We’ll be posting regular updates on the competition throughout the coming months, so keep up to date by reading our blog or by following us on our Twitter@OncoBioMed.

If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to email us atHealthSciencesEditorial@springernature.com主题行：“癌症意识诗歌竞赛”。

条款和条件

Please read these terms and conditions carefully. By entering into this BMC ‘World Cancer Day’ poetry (“Promotion”), you agree that you have read these terms and that you agree to them. Failure to comply with these terms and conditions may result in your disqualification from the Promotion.

1. Information about how to enter and prize details form part of these Terms and Conditions. Entry into this Promotion is deemed to be an acceptance of these Terms and Conditions.
2. 该促销活动由Biomed Central Limited进行，其注册办公室在伦敦Crinan Street 4号校园内，N1 9XW（“”Promoter”）。
3. To enter this Promotion you must be: (a) resident in a country where it is lawful for you to enter; and (b) aged 18 years old or over (or the applicable age of majority in your country if higher) at the time of entry. This Promotion is void in Cuba, Iran, Myanmar, Russia, Ukraine, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria or where otherwise prohibited or restricted by law. Any government officials that enter the Promotion are responsible for ensuring that they may enter and/or receive a prize if they win and that the prize does not exceed the relevant limit for their role and jurisdiction. If a winner is not able to accept the prize then a charity donation can be made instead to a Springer nature approved charity.
4. This Promotion is not open to directors or employees (or members of their immediate families) of Promoter or any affiliate of Promoter. Affiliates include Editors-in-Chief, Section Editors, Associate Editors, Managing Editors and any individual employed by Springer Nature Limited or any of its group companies. Promoter reserves the right to verify the eligibility of entrants.
5. 促进对条目00:00之间是开放的February 4, 2019 and 23:59 on April 4, 2019 BST.
6. 无需购买此奖项促销，并且不会增加您获胜的机会。
7. You can enter this Promotion by filling out thisform.
8. Entries must be a poem in any style on the topic of cancer or cancer research. Entrants can be from any occupational background. Two winners shall be chosen.
9. 所有条目必须是原始的，以前未出版，并且在任何地方都不等待出版。先前发布的被认为是印刷或在线上的任何外观，包括但不限于报纸，新闻通讯，杂志，选集，书籍，书籍，网站，网站，电子杂志，个人博客，Twitter，Twitter，Facebook。
10. Only one entry per eligible person. Multiple entries will be deemed to be invalid and may lead to disqualification. Entries should be no more than 250 words including the title and on one page. The page specifications should have standard 1’’ margins, be single spaced and in 12 point font in Arial. Acceptable file formats are.docor.docx.
11. Promoter accepts no responsibility for any entries that are incomplete, illegible, corrupted or fail to reach Promoter by the closing date for any reason. Proof of posting or sending is not proof of receipt. Entries via agents or third parties are invalid. No other form of entry is permitted. Please keep a copy of your entry as we will be unable to return entries or provide copies.
12. The prize for the winners consists of the following: Winning entries will be published on the Oncology Open Access Research BMC web page and on such promotional outlets as determined by the Promoter alongside the winner’s name, geographic location and a short biography. Winners can also opt in or opt out of having their picture published alongside the poem.
13. The winning entries will be chosen by a panel of Springer Nature employees, who will be looking for poems that reflect originality, creativity, and an overall compelling writing style. Springer Nature reserves full editorial discretion in choosing winner(s), and may decide to award none of the entries.
14. Winners will be notified via email about their prize within 4 weeks following the close of the promotion. Winners will be selected by a panel of Springer Nature editors. Full names of the judging panel will be available on request. Any decision will be final and binding and no further communication will be entered into in relation to it.
15. 通过提交促销诗，您可以特别授予发起人，以所有形式和版本，修订，翻译和衍生品在版权的整个时期中发布，展示，展示，使用和存储诗在所有媒体中。这首诗可用于印刷和在线的促销或营销材料。您确认您的条目是您自己的原始作品，不是诽谤性的，也不违反任何法律，包括英国或其他地方的隐私法，或任何第三方的任何权利，没有其他人参与创建您的条目，您有权授予发起人及其各自的被许可人的许可，将其用于此处指定的目的，您可以同意您在您的贡献或父母，监护人或照料者的同意下的同意未满18岁（或多数年龄），您可以进入合法，并且您同意不转移包含病毒或任何其他有害计划的文件。请注意，参赛者有责任获得版权持有人的许可以复制第三方知识产权。可能需要任何可识别的人签署模型释放。
16. The winner(s) of the Promotion shall be notified as follows: contacted by email no later than 2^ndMay 2019.
17. 优胜者将被要求在十个工作日内确认接受该奖品，并可能需要完成并退还资格表格，以说明其年龄和居住详细信息，以及其他详细信息。发起人将努力确保获胜者在确认接受该奖品之日起45天内获得奖品，并履行任何后宣传要求。如果获胜者在通知的十个工作日内不接受奖品，他们将丧失奖品，并保留选择其他获胜者的权利。发起人的决定是最终决定，并且发起人保留不对任何事项通讯的权利。
18. The name, region of residence and likeness of the winners may be used by Promoter for reasonable post-event publicity in any form including on Promoters website and social media pages at no cost.
19. 您可以通过检查www.geezinslaw.com找出谁赢得了奖品。
20. Promoter reserves the right to cancel or amend these Terms and Conditions or change the Prize (to one of equal or greater value) as required by the circumstances.
21. 参赛者提交的所有个人数据均应受到并将以与启动者的隐私政策一致的方式进行处理，请访问https://www.biomedcentral.com/privacy-statement。通过参与这项促销活动，参赛者在此同意发起人可以收集和使用其个人信息，并承认他们已经阅读并接受了促进者隐私政策。
22. 发起人可以自行决定取消任何被认为正在篡改或干扰网站的进入或操作的参赛者，或者以任何被视为破坏或偏见的促销活动或偏见的方式行事。
23. 除了引起的死亡或个人损害from negligence of the Promoter, so far as is permitted by law, the Promoter hereby excludes all liability for any loss, damage, cost and expense, whether direct or indirect, howsoever caused in connection with the Promotion or any aspect of the Prize. All activities are undertaken at the entrants own risk. Your legal rights as a consumer are not affected.
24. 这些条款和条件应根据英国法律管辖并解释。与本协议有关的纠纷应遵守英国法院的非排他性管辖权。