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Complete List of Compassionate Allowances Conditions

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Note: Conditions highlighted in Red are effective August 13, 2012.

   
1
Acute Leukemia
2
Adrenal Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
3
Aicardi-Goutieres Syndrome
4
Alexander Disease (ALX) - Neonatal and Infantile
5
Alobar Holoprosencephaly
6
Alpers Disease
7
Alpha Mannosidosis - Type II/III
8
ALS/Parkinsonism Dementia Complex
9
Alstrom Syndrome
10
Amegakaryocytic Thrombocytopenia
11
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
12
Anaplastic Adrenal Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
13
Angelman Syndrome
14
Aortic Atresia
15
Astrocytoma - Grade III and IV
16
Ataxia Telangiectasia
17
Batten Disease
18
Bilateral Retinoblastoma
19
Bladder Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
20
Breast Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
21
Canavan Disease (CD)
22
Carcinoma of Unknown Primary Site
23
Cerebro Oculo Facio Skeletal (COFS) Syndrome
24
Cerebrotendinous Xanthomatosis
25
Child Neuroblastoma
26
Child Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
27
Chondrosarcoma with multimodal therapy
28
Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) - Blast Phase
29
Cornelia de Lange Syndrome-Classic Form
30
Corticobasal Degeneration
31
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) - Adult
32
Cri du Chat Syndrome
33
Degos Disease, Systemic
34
Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease
35
Edwards Syndrome (Trisomy 18)
36
Eisenmenger Syndrome
37
Endomyocardial Fibrosis
38
Ependymoblastoma (Child Brain Tumor)
39
Esophageal Cancer
40
Ewings Sarcoma
41
Farber's Disease (FD) - Infantile
42
Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva
43
Follicular Dendritic Cell Sarcoma with metastases
44
Friedreichs Ataxia (FRDA)
45
Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD), Picks Disease -Type A - Adult
46
Fucosidosis - Type 1
47
Fukuyama Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
48
Galactosialidosis - Early Infantile Type
49
Gallbladder Cancer
50
Gaucher Disease (GD) - Type 2
51
Glioblastoma Multiforme (Adult Brain Tumor)
52
Glioma Grade III and IV
53
Glutaric Acidemia Type II (Neonatal)
54
Hallervorden-Spatz Disease
55
Head and Neck Cancers - with distant metastasis or inoperable or uresectable
56
Heart Transplant Graft Failure
57
Heart Transplant Wait List, 1A/1B
58
Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH), Familial Type
59
Hepatoblastoma
60
Histiocytosis
61
Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome
62
Hydranencephaly
63
Hypocomplementemic Urticarial Vasculitis
64
Hypophosphatasia Perinatal lethal form
65
Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
66
I Cell disease
67
Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
68
Infantile Free Sialic Acid Storage Disease
69
Infantile Neuroaxonal Dystrophy (INAD)
70
Infantile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses
71
Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC)
72
Junctional Epidermolysis Bullosa, Lethal Type
73
Juvenile Onset Huntington Disease
74
Kidney Cancer - inoperable or unresectable
75
Krabbe Disease (KD) - Infantile
76
Kufs Disease Type A and B
77
Large Intestine Cancer - with distant metastasis or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
78
Late Infantile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses
79
Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) Recipient
80
Leigh’s Disease
81
Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome (LNS)
82
Lewy Body Dementia
83
Lissencephaly
84
Liver Cancer
85
Lowe Syndrome
86
Lymphomatoid Granulomatosis Grade III
87
Malignant Brain Stem Glioma - Childhood
88
Malignant Melanoma with metastases
89
Malignant Multiple Sclerosis
90
Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL)
91
Maple Syrup Urine Disease
92
Mastocytosis Type IV
93
Medulloblastoma with metastasis
94
Merkel Cell Carcinoma with metastasis
95
Merosin Deficient Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
96
Metachromatic Leukodystrophy (MLD) - Late Infantile
97
Mitral Valve Atresia
98
Mixed Dementias
99
MPS I, formerly known as Hurler Syndrome
100
MPS II, formerly known as Hunter Syndrome
101
MPS III, formerly known as Sanfilippo Syndrome
102
Mucosal Malignant Melanoma
103
Multicentric Castleman Disease
104
Multiple System Atrophy
105
Myocolonic Epilepsy and Ragged Red Fibers Syndrome
106
Neonatal Adrenoleukodystrophy
107
Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis
108
Niemann-Pick Disease (NPD) - Type A
109
Niemann-Pick Disease-Type C
110
Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer - with metastases to or beyond the hilar nodes or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
111
Obliterative Bronchiolitis
112
Ohtahara Syndrome
113
Ornithine Transcarbamylase (OTC) Deficiency
114
Orthochromatic Leukodystrophy with Pigmented Glia
115
Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) - Type II
116
Osteosarcoma, formerly known as Bone Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
117
Ovarian Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
118
Pancreatic Cancer
119
Paraneoplastic Pemphigus
120
Patau Syndrome (Trisomy 13)
121
Pearson Syndrome
122
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease-Classic Form
123
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease-Connatal Form
124
Peripheral Nerve Cancer - metastatic or recurrent
125
Peritoneal Mesothelioma
126
Perry Syndrome
127
Pleural Mesothelioma
128
Pompe Disease - Infantile
129
Primary Cardiac Amyloidosis
130
Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma
131
Primary Effusion Lymphoma
132
Primary Progressive Aphasia
133
Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy
134
Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
135
Pulmonary Atresia
136
Pulmonary Kaposi Sarcoma
137
Rett (RTT) Syndrome
138
Rhabdomyosarcoma
139
Rhizomelic Chondrodysplasia Punctata
140
Salivary Tumors
141
Sandhoff Disease
142
Schindler Disease Type 1
143
Single Ventricle
144
Small Cell Cancer (of the Large Intestine, Ovary, Prostate, or Uterus)
145
Small Cell Lung Cancer
146
Small Intestine Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
147
Smith Lemli Opitz Syndrome
148
Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) - Types 0 And 1
149
Spinal Nerve Root Cancer-metastatic or recurrent
150
Spinocerebellar Ataxia
151
Stiff Person Syndrome
152
Stomach Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
153
Subacute Sclerosis Panencephalitis
154
Tabes Dorsalis
155
Tay Sachs Disease - Infantile Type
156
Thanatophoric Dysplasia, Type 1
157
Thyroid Cancer
158
Tricuspid Atresia
159
Ullrich Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
160
Ureter Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
161
Walker Warburg Syndrome
162
Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome
163
Wolman Disease
164
Xeroderma Pigmentosum
165
Zellweger Syndrome
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