Abstracts must be in English. Authors will be recommended to submit their abstracts on-line (URL : http://square.umin.ac.jp/cibd/). Complete details of the on-line submission process will be supplied on the web. A typed/printed abstract on the enclosed camera-ready Abstract Form is also available. Follow strictly the camera-ready abstract submission guidelines. The completed form should be mailed to 3rd CIBD Registration Secretariat. Faxed submissions WILL NOT be accepted. An abstract booklet will be distributed at the meeting containing the abstracts which have reached us by the deadline. Abstracts will be called for under the following categories: 1. Basic Mechanisms of Cancer Metastasis 2. Bone Microenvironment and Cancer 3. Breast Cancer 4. Prostate Cancer 5. Multiple Myeloma 6. Paraneoplastic Syndrome and Bone 7. Diagnosis of Bone Metastasis 8. Management of Bone Metastasis 9. Others

All participants wishing to present papers are requested to submit their abstracts NO LATER than May 24 (Thu.), 2001 (camera-ready) or June 14 (Thu.), 2001 (on-line).