Publication Ethics

Ethics Guidelines for SECI Oncology Journal


Conflict of interest


Dear authors,

All articles for publishing in SECI oncology journal is required to declare any conflict of interest relating to their performed research aimed to be published.
Authors are formally requested to declare any financial and personal relationship to third parties whose interests could be positively or negatively influenced by the article’s content, even if the author believes there to be no influence.
This declaration is good publishing practice according to the uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors and helps to establish scientific transparency.

Even if there is no conflict of interest, this must be stated explicitly.


Patients‘ rights statements

Medical research is subject to ethical standards, where Physicians should take into consideration the ethical, legal and regulatory norms and standards for research on humans in their respective countries as well as the respective international norms and standards.

Statements concerning having IRB approval and having obtained informed consent from the participating patients should already be made at the time of submission of your manuscript.

Examples All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of IRB of South Egypt Cancer Institute and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975 (in its most recently recent version) and the Informed consent was obtained from all patients included in the study.

Additional informed consent was obtained from all patients for whom identifying information is included in this article.

All institutional and national guidelines for the care and use of laboratory animals were followed.

This article does not contain any studies with human or animal subjects