Patient-reported pain severity and health-related quality of life in patients with multiple myeloma in real world clinical practice.

Background: The association between patient self-reported pain severity and health-related quality-of-life (HRQoL) is poorly understood.

Aims: This real-world study of symptomatic multiple myeloma (MM) patients sought to determine how pain severity from a single question asked during routine clinical consultation was associated with HRQoL.

Methods And Results: Point-in-time data on HRQoL of 330 patients with MM (median age 70 years) receiving anti-myeloma therapy in Germany and Italy from November 2017 through February 2018 were analyzed.