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.
- Acute leukemia
- Adrenal cancer with distant metastases; or inoperable, unresectable, or recurring adrenal cancer
- Adult non-Hodgkin lymphoma
- Anaplastic adrenal cancer with distant metastases; or inoperable, unresectable, or recurrent
- Bilateral retinoblastoma
- Bladder Cancer with distant metastases, or inoperable or unresectable bladder cancer
- Breast cancer with distant metastases, or inoperable or unresectable breast cancer
- Carcinoma of unknown primary site
- Chondrosarcoma with multimodal therapy
- Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), blast phase
- Endometrial stromal sarcoma
- Esophageal cancer
- Ewing sarcoma
- Follicular dendritic cell sarcoma, metastatic or recurrent
- Gallbladder cancer
- Glioblastoma multiforme (adult brain tumor)
- Glioma, grade III and IV
- Head and neck cancers with distant metastases, or which are inoperable or unresectable
- Hepatoblastoma
- Kidney cancer, inoperable or unresectable
- Large intestine cancer with distant metastasis; or inoperable, unresectable, or recurrent
- Leiomyosarcoma
- Liver Cancer
- Lymphomatoid granulomatosis, Grade III
- Malignant gastrointestinal stromal tumor
- Malignant germ cell tumor
- Malignant melanoma, with metastases
- Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL)
- Merkel cell carcinoma, with metastases
- Mucosal malignant melanoma
- Non-small cell lung cancer; inoperable, unresectable, or recurrent; or with metastases to or beyond the hilar nodes
- Osteosarcoma, with distant metastases, or inoperable or unresectable
- Ovarian cancer, with distant metastases, or inoperable or unresectable
- Pancreatic cancer
- Peripheral nerve cancer, metastatic or recurrent
- Peritoneal mesothelioma
- Peritoneal mucinous carcinomatosis
- Pleural mesothelioma
- Primary central nervous system lymphoma
- Primary effusion lymphoma
- Pulmonary Kaposi sarcoma
- Salivary tumors
- Sinonasal cancer
- Small cell cancer of the large intestine, ovary, prostate, or uterus
- Small cell lung cancer
- Small intestine cancer
- Spinal nerve root cancer, metastatic or recurrent
- Stomach cancer, with distant metastases; or inoperable, unresectable, or recurrent
- 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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