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RecruitingNCT03151629IRONMANUpdated May 22, 2026

International Registry for Men With Advanced Prostate Cancer (IRONMAN)

An observational study in Prostate Cancer, sponsored by Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials Consortium. Recruiting at 121 sites in 15 countries. Open to male participants aged 21 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-05-22.

Sponsored by Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials Consortium · Observational

From the registry’s dates

  • Started Jul 2017; still recruiting 9 years 3 months later.
Study type
Observational
Model
Cohort
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrollment
5,000
Ages
21 Years and older
Sex
Male
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Study summary

Our intent is to establish the International Registry to Improve Outcomes in Men with Advanced Prostate Cancer (IRONMAN) as a prospective, international cohort of minimum 5,000 men with advanced cancer, including men with mHSPC and M0/M1 CRPC. The goal is to establish a population-based registry and recruit patients across academic and community practices from Australia, Barbados, Brazil, Canada, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Nigeria, Norway, Spain, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom (UK), and the United States (US). Target accrual number and number of participating sites are subject to change based on accrual, funding, and interest in participation by other international sites. This cohort study will facilitate a better understanding of the variation in care and treatment of advanced prostate cancer across countries and across academia and community based practices.

Detailed data will be collected from patients at study enrollment and then during follow-up, for a minimum of five years. Patients will be followed prospectively for overall survival, clinically significant adverse events, comorbidities, changes in cancer treatments, and PROMs.

PROMs questionnaires will be collected at enrollment and every three months thereafter.

Physician Questionnaires will be collected from all participating sites at patient enrollment, time of first change in treatment and/or one year follow-up, at each subsequent change of treatment, and discontinuation of treatment.

As such, this registry will help identify the treatment sequences or combinations that optimize overall survival and PROMs for men with mHSPC and M0/M1 CRPC. By collecting blood at enrollment, time of first change in treatment and/or one year follow-up (plasma, cell free DNA, buffy coat / RNA), this registry will further identify and validate molecular phenotypes of disease that predict response and resistance to specific therapeutics. Additionally, every effort will be made to collect blood specimen at each subsequent change in treatment due to progression of disease. When feasible, existing tumor tissue may be collected for correlation with described blood based studies. All samples will be used for future research. This cohort study will provide the research community with a unique biorepository to identify biomarkers of treatment response and resistance.

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Conditions studied

  • Prostate Cancer

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In context

Prostatic Neoplasms

7,046 studies on the registry are indexed under Prostatic Neoplasms; 1,580 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 5,000 is above the median of 200 across 1,310 observational studies indexed under Prostatic Neoplasms.

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Lead sponsor

Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials Consortium is the lead sponsor of 5 studies on the registry; 4 are open to participants now.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
21 Years and older
Sexes eligible
Male
Accepts healthy volunteers
No
Sampling method
Non-probability sample

Study population

Metastatic hormone sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC): Prostate cancer patients diagnosed with histologically confirmed cancer with radiological evidence of metastatic disease and on ADT for no more than 90 days.

Castration resistant prostate cancer (CRPC): Prostate cancer patients (with or without radiological evidence of metastatic disease) with a confirmed rising PSA (at least two measures) while on ADT or orchiectomy or castrate level of testosterone as determined by investigator.

Prostate cancer patients with mixed histological types may participate in this Registry.

Eligibility criteria

  • Willing and able to provide written and privacy authorization for the release of personal health information.

NOTE: Privacy authorization may be either included in the informed consent or obtained separately.

  • Males 21 years of age and above
  • Histological or cytological confirmed prostate adenocarcinoma from TRUS , radical prostatectomy or TURP Or Documented histopathology or cytopathology of prostate adenocarcinoma from a biopsy of a site Or Metastatic disease typical of prostate cancer (i.e., involving bone or pelvic lymph nodes or para-aortic lymph nodes) AND a serum concentration of PSA >20ng/mL at the time of initial prostate cancer diagnosis
  • No previous diagnosis of a second, non-prostate that requires additional systemic therapy except cancer in situ of bladder and basal cell cancer of skin
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(4)

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Informed consent

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Biopsy and archival tissue

A biopsy takes a small piece of tissue to examine. “Archival tissue” is a sample already taken, for example at diagnosis, and kept by the hospital.

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Metastases

Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.

Cancer (malignancy)

Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.

Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.

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Study design

Observational model
Cohort
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrollment
5,000 participants (estimated)
Target follow-up
5 Years
Patient registry
Yes

Groups and cohorts

  • Castrate Resistant Prostate Cancer

    Other: Standard of Care

  • Hormone Sensitive Prostate Cancer

    Other: Standard of Care

Interventions

  • OtherStandard of Care

    Drugs routinely administered for metastatic prostate cancer per local standard.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Practice Patterns

    To describe the practice patterns of therapeutic agents for treatment of advanced prostate cancer internationally

    Time frame: 5 years

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Study locations

75 of 121 sites recruiting

Showing the first 100 of 121 sites across 15 countries. Choose a country and city above to see the rest.

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References and documents

Publications

  • Rencsok EM, Slopen N, McManus HD, Autio KA, Morgans AK, McSwain L, Barata P, Cheng HH, Dreicer R, Gerke T, Green R, Heath EI, Howard LE, McKay RR, Nowak J, Pileggi S, Pomerantz MM, Rathkopf DE, Tagawa ST, Whang YE, Ragin C, Odedina FT, Kantoff PW, Vinson J, Villanti P, Haneuse S, Mucci LA, George DJ; IRONMAN Registry. Pain and Its Association with Survival for Black and White Individuals with Advanced Prostate Cancer in the United States. Cancer Res Commun. 2024 Jan 8;4(1):55-64. doi: 10.1158/2767-9764.CRC-23-0446. PubMed 38108490 ↗
  • Rencsok EM, Stopsack KH, Slopen N, Odedina FT, Ragin C, Nowak J, McSwain L, Manarite J, Heath E, George DJ, Kantoff PW, Vinson J, Villanti P, Haneuse S, Mucci LA; IRONMAN Registry. Experience with the US health care system for Black and White patients with advanced prostate cancer. Cancer. 2023 Aug 15;129(16):2532-2541. doi: 10.1002/cncr.34885. Epub 2023 May 28. PubMed 37246339 ↗
  • McKay RR, Gold T, Zarif JC, Chowdhury-Paulino IM, Friedant A, Gerke T, Grant M, Hawthorne K, Heath E, Huang FW, Jackson MD, Mahal B, Ogbeide O, Paich K, Ragin C, Rencsok EM, Simmons S, Yates C, Vinson J, Kantoff PW, George DJ, Mucci LA. Tackling Diversity in Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials: A Report From the Diversity Working Group of the IRONMAN Registry. JCO Glob Oncol. 2021 Apr;7:495-505. doi: 10.1200/GO.20.00571. PubMed 33835826 ↗

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on May 22, 2026, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT03151629
Lead sponsor
Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials Consortium
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
May 12, 2017
Start date
Jul 21, 2017
Primary completion
Jan 2031 (estimated)
Completion
Jan 2032 (estimated)
Last update
May 22, 2026

Study contacts

Jacob Vinson
Contact
pcctcironmanregistry@mskcc.org
646-888-0421
Daniel George, MD
principal investigator · Duke Cancer Institute
Lorelei Mucci, ScD
principal investigator · Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)
Phillip Kantoff, MD
principal investigator · Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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