ASH 2011 brought the greatest number of abstracts on multiple myeloma (MM) ever published in the meeting’s history, 712 abstracts to be exact. While no single abstract made headlines, taken collectively they offer ample evidence of a year of significant steps forward in understanding, prognosticating, imaging, treating, and monitoring this disease. To better categorize the meeting’s highlights, we turn to the IMF’s 10 STEPS TO BETTER CARE as a framework.