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Neoplastic Diseases, Malignant
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13.01
Category of Impairments, Neoplastic Diseases-Malignant

13.02
Head and neck (except salivary glands--13.07, thyroid gland--13.08, and mandible, maxilla, orbit, or temporal fossa--13.11):

A. Inoperable; or

B. Not controlled by prescribed therapy; or

C. Recurrent after radical surgery or irradiation; or

D. With distant metastases; or

E. Epidermoid carcinoma occurring in the pyriform sinus or posterior third of the tongue.

13.03
Sarcoma of skin:

A. Angiosarcoma with metastases to regional lymph nodes or beyond; or

B. Mycosis fungoides with metastases to regional lymph nodes, or with visceral involvement.

13.04
Sarcoma of soft parts: Not controlled by prescribed therapy.

13.05
Malignant melanoma:

A. Recurrent after wide excision; or

B. With metastases to adjacent skin (satellite lesions) or elsewhere.

13.06
Lymph nodes:

A. Hodgkin's disease or non-Hodgkin's lymphoma with progressive disease not controlled by prescribed therapy; or

B. Metastatic carcinoma in a lymph node (except for epidermoid carcinoma in a lymph node in the neck) where the primary site is not determined after adequate search; or

C. Epidermoid carcinoma in a lymph node in the neck not responding to prescribed therapy.

13.07
Salivary glands - carcinoma or sarcoma with metastases beyond the regional lymph nodes.

13.08
Thyroid gland

A. Anaplastic (undifferentiated) carcinoma of the thyroid: or

B. Carcinoma with metastases beyond the regional lymph nodes, not controlled by prescribed therapy.

13.09
Breast:

A. Inoperable carcinoma; or

B. Inflammatory carcinoma; or

C. Recurrent carcinoma, except local recurrence controlled by prescribed therapy; or

D. Distant metastases from breast carcinoma (bilateral breast carcinoma, synchronous or metachronous, is usually primary in each breast); or

E. Sarcoma with metastases anywhere.

13.10
Skeletal system (exclusive of the jaw):

A. Malignant primary tumors with evidence of metastases and not controlled by prescribed therapy; or

B. Metastatic carcinoma to bone where the primary site is not determined after adequate search.

13.11 Mandible, maxilla, orbit, or temporal fossa:

A. Sarcoma of any type with metastases; or

B. Carcinoma of the antrum with extension into the orbit or ethmoid or sphenoid sinus, or with regional or distant metastases; or

C. Orbital tumors with intracranial extension; or

D. Tumors of the temporal fossa with perforation of skull and meningeal involvement; or

E. Adamantinoma with orbital or intracranial infiltration; or

F. Tumors of Rathke's pouch with infiltration of the base of the skull or metastases.

13.12
Brain or spinal cord:

A. Metastatic carcinoma to brain or spinal cord.

B. Evaluate other tumors under the criteria described in 11.05 and 11.08.

13.13
Lungs:

A. Unresectable or with incomplete excision; or

B. Recurrence or metastases after resection; or

C. Oat cell (small cell) carcinoma; or

D. Squamous cell carcinoma, with metastases beyond the hilar lymph nodes; or

E. Other histologic types of carcinoma, including undifferentiated and mixed-cell types (but excluding oat cell carcinoma, 13.13C, and squamous cell carcinoma, 13.13D), with metastases to the hilar lymph nodes.

13.14 Pleura or mediastinum:

A. Malignant mesothelioma of pleura; or

B. Malignant tumors, metastatic to pleura; or

C. Malignant primary tumor of the mediastinum not controlled by prescribed therapy.

13.15 Abdomen:

A. Generalized carcinomatosis; or

B. Retroperitoneal cellular sarcoma not controlled by prescribed therapy; or

C. Ascites with demonstrated malignant cells.

13.16
Esophagus or stomach:

A. Carcinoma or sarcoma of the esophagus; or

B. Carcinoma of the stomach with metastases to the regional lymph nodes or extension to surrounding structures; or

C. Sarcoma of stomach not controlled by prescribed therapy; or

D. Inoperable carcinoma; or

E. Recurrence of metastasis after resection.

13.17
Small intestine:

A. Carcinoma, sarcoma, or carcinoid tumor with metastases beyond the regional lymph nodes; or

B. Recurrence of carcinoma, sarcoma, or carcinoid tumor after resection; or

C. Sarcoma, not controlled by prescribed therapy.

13.18
Large intestine (from ileocecal valve to and including anal canal) - carcinoma or sarcoma:

A. Unresectable; or

B. Metastases beyond the regional lymph nodes; or

C. Recurrence or metastases after resection.

13.19
Liver or gallbladder:

A. Primary or metastatic malignant tumors of the liver; or

B. Carcinoma of the gallbladder; or

C. Carcinoma of the bile ducts.

13.20
Pancreas:

A. Carcinoma except islet cell carcinoma; or

B. Islet cell carcinoma which is unresectable and physiologically active.

13.21
Kidneys, adrenal glands, or ureters - carcinoma:

A. Unresectable; or

B. With hematogenous spread to distant sites; or

C. With metastases to regional lymph nodes.

13.22
Urinary bladder-carcinoma. With:

A. Infiltration beyond the bladder wall; or

B. Metastases to regional lymph nodes; or

C. Unresectable; or

D. Recurrence after total cystectomy; or

E. Evaluate renal impairment after total cystectomy under the criteria in 6.02.

13.23
Prostate gland - carcinoma not controlled by prescribed therapy.

13.24
Testicles:

A. Choriocarcinoma; or

B. Other malignant primary tumors with progressive disease not controlled by prescribed therapy.

13.25
Uterus-carcinoma or sarcoma (corpus or cervix):

A. Inoperable and not controlled by prescribed therapy; or

B. Recurrent after total hysterectomy; or

C. Total pelvic exenteration.

13.26
Ovaries-all malignant, primary or recurrent tumors. With:

A. Ascites with demonstrated malignant cells; or

B. Unresectable infiltration; or

C. Unresectable metastases to omentum or elsewhere in the peritoneal cavity; or

D. Distant metastases.

13.27
Leukemia: Evaluate under the criteria of 7.00ff, Hemic and Lymphatic System.

13.28
Uterine (fallopian) tubes--carcinoma or sarcoma:

A. Unresectable, or

B. Metastases to regional lymph nodes.

13.29
Penis-carcinoma, with metastases to regional lymph nodes.

13.30
Vulva-carcinoma, with distant metastases

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