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List of Compassionate Allowances Conditions

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