Submission checklist

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If you consider your paper to be outstanding and of broad interest, have you considered submitting it to BMC Medicine?

Please make sure you have satisfied the points on the following checklist before submitting your manuscript. If you have any questions about the submission process, please contact info@biomedcentral.com.

1. E-mail addresses
Do you have a list of the e-mail addresses for all the co-authors of the manuscript? You will need to provide these so that we can inform the co-authors when the manuscript has been received and when it is published.

2. Instructions for Authors and peer review policy
Have you read the detailed Instructions for Authors for BMC Cancer? You may also like to read BMC Cancer's peer review policy.

3. Covering letter, peer reviewers and editorial board selection
Have you prepared a covering letter for your submission, explaining why we should publish your manuscript and elaborating on any issues relating to our editorial policies detailed in the instructions for authors? This should be provided using the 'cover letter' section of the submission process. And do you have the contact details (including e-mail addresses) of at least four potential peer reviewers for your paper, which you will need at the same time? These should be experts in your field of study, who will be able to provide an objective assessment of the manuscript's quality. Any peer reviewers you suggest should not have recently published with any of the authors of your manuscript and should not be members of the same research institution. You will be asked to select the one or two Editorial Board members whose interests most closely match the subject of your manuscript.

4. Manuscript files
Do you have all the files for the manuscript in an acceptable format?

Please refer to the Instructions for Authors for further information about suitable file types.

5. Article-processing charges
Are you aware that BMC Cancer has an article processing charge of £950 (€1195, US$1855) per article accepted for publication? However, there is a good chance that you may be entitled to a discount or will not be asked to pay this yourself. For example, your institution, group or society may already have covered the cost, or a proportion of it, by being a BioMed Central member. Individual waiver requests will be considered on a case-by-case basis and may be granted in cases of lack of funds. To apply for a waiver please request one during the submission process. A decision on the waiver will normally be made within two working days. Submission of the article to the journal can then be completed. (More information about article processing charges is available and you can find out how to get your institution to become a BioMed Central member). Whether paying, claiming an exemption or requesting a waiver, please continue with the submission process below.

6. Are you one of the authors of this article?
If not, you cannot submit the article on behalf of the authors. The submitting author takes responsibility for the article during submission and peer review.

7. Conditions of submission and BioMed Central Copyright and License Agreement Do you confirm that all the authors of the manuscript have read and agreed to its content, that readily reproducible materials described in the manuscript will be freely available to any scientist wishing to use them for non-commercial purposes , and that you have ethical approval for any human or animal experimentation (for more information see our Instructions for Authors)? Do you confirm that the manuscript is original, has not already been published in a journal and is not currently under consideration by another journal? By clicking the button below, you are confirming these points and agreeing to these and all other terms of the BioMed Central Copyright and License Agreement, which we suggest you read.

Yes, I am the submitting author of this article and I accept the conditions of submission and the BioMed Central Copyright and License Agreement - take me to the next step.