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COMPPARE Makes a Movie!

COMPPARE patient stakeholders determined that a video would be a key element in our patient recruitment strategy. The Minority Engagement Group also decided that a real prostate cancer survivor was necessary to ensure authenticity and build a genuine connection with patients. Enter the exceptional…

COMPPARE Development Workshop

On February 2-4, 2018, members of the COMPPARE Consortium gathered at the beautiful Omni Amelia Island Plantation Resort in Amelia Island, FL, for a development workshop to prepare for the start of our PCORI contract on April 1. Dr. Nancy Mendenhall, the Principal Investigator (PI), and Dr. Ronald…

COMPPARE Study Awarded PCORI Contract

Nancy Mendenhall, MD, at the University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute, and Ronald Chen, MD, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, were awarded $11.9 million to directly compare the potential benefits and harms of proton therapy to standard radiation therapy when treating prostate cancer. Read…