Listing 13.10
Breast (except sarcoma—13.04)
04).
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listing covers breast cancer (breast sarcoma is evaluated under 13.04). SSA looks for locally advanced disease, cancer that spread to certain lymph nodes or distant sites, cancer that came back, the aggressive small cell type, or lymphedema from treatment that required surgery on the arm. Cancer in both breasts is evaluated under path A as local disease, not as spread. Carcinoma-in-situ (preinvasive cancer) does not count under these listings. Only one path (A–E) is needed.
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What Listing 13.10 asks for
What SSA looks for — see the 5 items
We will check your records against each of these. Every item comes straight from SSA's own listing.
- The breast cancer is locally advanced: it is inflammatory breast cancer, has grown into the chest wall or skin, or has spread to the internal mammary lymph nodes on the same side.
- Cancer in both breasts is also evaluated here.
- This alone is enough.
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The breast cancer is locally advanced: it is inflammatory breast cancer, has grown into the chest wall or skin, or has spread to the internal mammary lymph nodes on the same side. Cancer in both breasts is also evaluated here. This alone is enough.
(Listing 13.10, criterion A)
The cancer has spread to lymph nodes above or below the collarbone, to 10 or more underarm (axillary) lymph nodes, or to distant parts of the body. This alone is enough.
(Listing 13.10, criterion B)
The breast cancer came back after treatment — unless it came back only in the local area and treatment made it go away again. This alone is enough.
(Listing 13.10, criterion C)
The breast cancer is the rare, aggressive small cell (oat cell) type. The pathology diagnosis alone is enough.
(Listing 13.10, criterion D)
- Breast cancer treatment caused lymphedema (arm swelling from damaged lymph channels), and you needed surgery to save or restore the use of your arm.
- SSA considers you disabled for at least 12 months from that surgery; the disability onset date can be set earlier than the surgery if the records support it.
- This alone is enough.
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Breast cancer treatment caused lymphedema (arm swelling from damaged lymph channels), and you needed surgery to save or restore the use of your arm. SSA considers you disabled for at least 12 months from that surgery; the disability onset date can be set earlier than the surgery if the records support it. This alone is enough.
(Listing 13.10, criterion E)
How long it must last:
- Criterion E: disabling until at least 12 months from the date of the lymphedema surgery.
- Otherwise, under 13.00H2, disabling until at least 3 years after onset of complete remission.
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Criterion E: disabling until at least 12 months from the date of the lymphedema surgery. Otherwise, under 13.00H2, disabling until at least 3 years after onset of complete remission.