Mobile Health Device Study for Myeloma Patients

Other illness

• POEMS syndrome

Other

• Plasma cell leukemia
• Amyloidosis

• Newly diagnosed Multiple Myeloma meeting International Myeloma Working Group (IMWG) criteria (as below) participants with clinical and histological confirmation of diagnosis planning to receive chemotherapy are eligible:
• Newly diagnosed Multiple Myeloma patients will have evidence of underlying end organ damage and/or myeloma defining event attributed to underlying plasma cell proliferative disorder meeting at least one of the following:
• Hypercalcemia: serum calcium \>0.25 mmol/L (\> 1 mg/dL) above upper limit of normal or ≥ 2.75 mmol/L (11 mg/dL)
• Anemia: hemoglobin value \<10 g/dL or \> 2 g/dL below lower limit of normal
• Bone disease: ≥ 1 lytic lesions on skeletal X-ray, CT, or PET-CT. For patients with 1 lytic lesion, bone marrow should demonstrate ≥ 10% clonal plasma cells
• Clonal bone marrow plasma cell percentage ≥ 60%
• Involved/un-involved serum free light chain ratio ≥100 and involved free light chain \>100 mg/L
• \> 1 focal lesion on magnetic resonance imaging study (lesion must be \>5 mm) in size
• All study participants will be required to receive primary chemotherapy treatment at a Memorial Sloan Kettering facility, including regional outpatient sites.
• All study participants will be required to have a smart phone or tablet device compatible with the Garmin Vivofit device.