Dear COMPPARE team, participants, stakeholders and friends, As you may know, the COMPPARE study was made possible by an initial five-year, $11.9 million grant from the Patient-centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) in 2017 to directly compare the potential benefits and harms of proton therapy to standard radiation therapy when…
A Message from Dr. Nancy Mendenhall Over the past two years, we have been searching for funding opportunities to support another 5 years of follow-up for the COMPPARE cohorts to provide all participants with a minimum of 8 years of follow-up. This spring a new funding opportunity was…
Dear COMPPARE team, participants, stakeholders and friends, From the moment enrollment was completed on October 31, 2022 we have turned our focus to retention, and I am pleased to report that retention (keeping patients actively on a study) and data collection rates have been excellent. I am immensely grateful…
A Message from Dr. Nancy Mendenhall Since COMPPARE was launched in 2017, new information has emerged that suggests there may be other differences in outcomes between photon and proton radiation in prostate cancer. We would like to answer as many of these questions as…
COMPPARE Newsroom Prostate cancer research news…
Dear COMPPARE team, participants, stakeholders and friends, I am excited to share with you that on October 31, 2022, COMPPARE closed enrollment with a total of 2,524 participants (1,024 photon patients and 1,500 proton patients; 900 pragmatic, 600 randomized)! This is an exceptional accomplishment given the ongoing national healthcare…
A Message from Dr. Nancy Mendenhall I am excited to share with you that on October 31, 2022, COMPPARE closed enrollment with a total of 2,524 participants (1,024 photon patients and 1,500 proton patients; 900 pragmatic, 600 randomized)! Read Dr. Mendenhall’s message. Partner Site…
The COMPPARE Coordinating Center announced today that the study achieved 75% enrollment on May 3, 2022. COMPPARE realized both a remarkable overall accrual rate and a exceptional accrual rate of minorities, despite the ongoing challenges presented by COVID-19. In fact, the study stands to become a model for patient-centric clinical…
COMPPARE Principal Investigator Nancy Price Mendenhall, MD, FACR, FASTRO, was invited to speak at the sixth annual Biennial Science of Global Prostate Cancer Disparities in Black Men Conference, held virtually November 10-13, 2021. The Prostate Cancer Transatlantic Consortium launched the event in Jacksonville, FL in 2010. Funded by the National…
The COMPPARE Coordinating Center announced on September 1, 2021 that the study had reached its Pragmatic Proton enrollment goal of 900 patients, completing and closing that arm of the proton cohort. The 900th patient was enrolled by the Proton Therapy Treatment & Research Center of the Loma Linda University Medical…
