49 Cancers Which Qualify for the SSA’s Compassionate Allowance Program

The Social Security Administration recognizes that some cancers are particularly aggressive. They have added 49 of these cancers to the Social Security Administration’s Compassionate Allowance Program, listed below. Those who qualify for the program receive expedited processing of their SSDI or SSI application.

  1. Acute leukemia
  2. Adrenal cancer with distant metastases; or inoperable, unresectable, or recurring adrenal cancer
  3. Adult non-Hodgkin lymphoma
  4. Anaplastic adrenal cancer with distant metastases; or inoperable, unresectable, or recurrent
  5. Bilateral retinoblastoma
  6. Bladder Cancer with distant metastases, or inoperable or unresectable bladder cancer
  7. Breast cancer with distant metastases, or inoperable or unresectable breast cancer
  8. Carcinoma of unknown primary site
  9. Chondrosarcoma with multimodal therapy
  10. Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), blast phase
  11. Endometrial stromal sarcoma
  12. Esophageal cancer
  13. Ewing sarcoma
  14. Follicular dendritic cell sarcoma, metastatic or recurrent
  15. Gallbladder cancer
  16. Glioblastoma multiforme (adult brain tumor)
  17. Glioma, grade III and IV
  18. Head and neck cancers with distant metastases, or which are inoperable or unresectable
  19. Hepatoblastoma
  20. Kidney cancer, inoperable or unresectable
  21. Large intestine cancer with distant metastasis; or inoperable, unresectable, or recurrent
  22. Leiomyosarcoma
  23. Liver Cancer
  24. Lymphomatoid granulomatosis, Grade III
  25. Malignant gastrointestinal stromal tumor
  26. Malignant germ cell tumor
  27. Malignant melanoma, with metastases
  28. Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL)
  29. Merkel cell carcinoma, with metastases
  30. Mucosal malignant melanoma
  31. Non-small cell lung cancer; inoperable, unresectable, or recurrent; or with metastases to or beyond the hilar nodes
  32. Osteosarcoma, with distant metastases, or inoperable or unresectable
  33. Ovarian cancer, with distant metastases, or inoperable or unresectable 
  34. Pancreatic cancer
  35. Peripheral nerve cancer, metastatic or recurrent
  36. Peritoneal mesothelioma
  37. Peritoneal mucinous carcinomatosis
  38. Pleural mesothelioma
  39. Primary central nervous system lymphoma
  40. Primary effusion lymphoma
  41. Pulmonary Kaposi sarcoma
  42. Salivary tumors
  43. Sinonasal cancer
  44. Small cell cancer of the large intestine, ovary, prostate, or uterus
  45. Small cell lung cancer
  46. Small intestine cancer
  47. Spinal nerve root cancer, metastatic or recurrent
  48. Stomach cancer, with distant metastases; or inoperable, unresectable, or recurrent
  49. Ureter Cancer, with distant metastases; or inoperable, unresectable, or recurrent


Those with a qualifying condition must provide medical documentation of the diagnosis in order to be approved for the Compassionate Allowance Program.
 

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