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IMWG 2016 Response Criteria calculator

Enter the published formula inputs below to calculate and interpret this score.

Clinical inputs

g/dL

Allowed range: 0–15 g/dL

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Grams per deciliter. A baseline under 1 g/dL is outside this entry.

g/dL

Allowed range: 0–15 g/dL

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Grams per deciliter. A baseline under 1 g/dL is outside this entry.

g/dL

Allowed range: 0–15 g/dL

Grams per deciliter. A baseline under 1 g/dL is outside this entry.

g/24 h

Allowed range: 0–50 g/24 h

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Milligrams per 24 hours. Urine under 200 mg/24 h at baseline is not required for minimal or partial response.

g/24 h

Allowed range: 0–50 g/24 h

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Milligrams per 24 hours. Urine under 200 mg/24 h at baseline is not required for minimal or partial response.

g/24 h

Allowed range: 0–50 g/24 h

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Milligrams per 24 hours. Urine under 200 mg/24 h at baseline is not required for minimal or partial response.

%

Allowed range: 0–100 %

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Percent on the aspirate. Complete response needs a value under 5.

Soft-tissue plasmacytoma at baseline
%

Allowed range: 0–100 %

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Percent fall in the sum of the products of the perpendicular diameters. More than 90 is required for very good partial response when a lesion remains. At least 50 is required for partial or minimal response. Enter 0 when there is no lesion.

Soft-tissue plasmacytoma has disappeared
Serum immunofixation
Urine immunofixation
Serum electrophoresis
Urine electrophoresis
Free light-chain ratio is normal

Normal means the validated free-light-chain ratio used in the paper.

No clonal plasma cells on immunohistochemistry

Yes means the kappa-to-lambda ratio is not above 4 to 1 and not below 1 to 2 after at least 100 plasma cells are counted.

Marrow minimal residual disease is negative

Yes means next-generation flow or sequencing finds no clone at a sensitivity of at least 1 in 100,000. This is used only after complete response.

Imaging residual disease is negative

Yes means every area of increased tracer uptake from baseline has gone, or has fallen below the mediastinal blood pool or the surrounding tissue.

Marrow and imaging negativity confirmed a year apart

Yes only when marrow and imaging negativity are both present now and were confirmed at least one year earlier.

Another progression finding

Yes for a new lesion, a 50% rise in soft-tissue size, a rise in circulating plasma cells of at least 50% with at least 200 cells per microliter, a free-light-chain difference that meets the progression rule, or a marrow plasma-cell rise of at least 10 percentage points when protein is not measurable.

Clinical relapse

Yes for a new soft-tissue or bone lesion, a definite increase in an existing lesion, calcium above 11 mg/dL, a hemoglobin fall of at least 2 g/dL, a creatinine rise of at least 2 mg/dL from the start of therapy, or hyperviscosity from the paraprotein. This is separate from biochemical progression.

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Clinical inputs

  • Baseline serum M-protein (g/dL)Accepted range: 0 to 15
  • Current serum M-protein (g/dL)Accepted range: 0 to 15
  • Lowest serum M-protein (g/dL)Accepted range: 0 to 15
  • Baseline urine M-protein (mg/24 h)Accepted range: 0 to 50000
  • Current urine M-protein (mg/24 h)Accepted range: 0 to 50000
  • Lowest urine M-protein (mg/24 h)Accepted range: 0 to 50000
  • Marrow plasma cells (%)Accepted range: 0 to 100
  • Soft-tissue plasmacytoma at baseline
  • Fall in soft-tissue size (%)Accepted range: 0 to 100
  • Soft-tissue plasmacytoma has disappeared
  • Serum immunofixation
  • Urine immunofixation
  • Serum electrophoresis
  • Urine electrophoresis
  • Free light-chain ratio is normal
  • No clonal plasma cells on immunohistochemistry
  • Marrow minimal residual disease is negative
  • Imaging residual disease is negative
  • Marrow and imaging negativity confirmed a year apart
  • Another progression finding
  • Clinical relapse

Primary source

Kumar S et al. International Myeloma Working Group consensus criteria for response and minimal residual disease assessment in multiple myeloma. Lancet Oncol. DOI: 10.1016/S1470-2045(16)30206-6. PMID: 27511158. Table 4, for a baseline serum M-protein of at least 1 g/dL. Biochemical progression is a rise of at least 25% from the lowest value, with a serum rise of at least 0.5 g/dL, or at least 1 g/dL when that lowest value was at least 5 g/dL, or a urine rise of at least 200 mg/24 h, or another listed progression finding. Minimal response is a serum fall of 25% through 49%. Partial response is a serum fall of at least 50%, plus a urine fall of at least 90% or to under 200 mg/24 h when baseline urine was at least 200 mg/24 h. Very good partial response is immunofixation positive with electrophoresis negative in serum and urine, or a serum fall of at least 90% with urine under 100 mg/24 h. Complete response is negative serum and urine immunofixation, disappearance of soft-tissue plasmacytomas, and under 5% marrow plasma cells. Stringent complete response adds a normal free-light-chain ratio and no clonal marrow plasma cells on immunohistochemistry. Marrow minimal residual disease negativity requires complete response and a negative next-generation flow or sequencing assay at a sensitivity of at least 1 in 10^5. Imaging negativity adds resolution of tracer uptake. Sustained negativity repeats marrow and imaging negativity at least 1 year apart. Response categories other than minimal residual disease wait for a second sample. A serum fall from 49.1% through 49.9% meets neither minimal nor partial response. (2016)

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