Multiple Myeloma (MM) Quality of Life (QOL) Study

Inclusion Criteria: Patient Eligibility criteria: * Adult patients (greater than 18 years) receiving active therapy for MM. * For patients with newly diagnosed MM, patients are eligible while undergoing induction therapy prior to received autologous stem cell transplant but not after. * Ability to read questions in English or willing to complete questionnaires with the assistance of an interpreter. Caregiver Eligibility criteria: * Adult (greater than 18 years) relative or a friend of a patient who agrees to participate in the study whom the patient identified as living with them or having in-person contact with him or her at least twice per week. * Ability to read and respond to questions in English or to complete questionnaires with minimal assistance of an interpreter Exclusion Criteria: * Patient Exclusion criteria: * Patients receiving maintenance therapy only. * Significant psychiatric or other co-morbid disease, which the treating clinician believes prohibits informed consent or participation in the study.