Specified Cancers

These employees or their survivors, from any of the above listed facilities, are eligible for benefits if, after beginning covered employment, they contracted one or more of the following specified cancers:

a. Leukemia. [Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is excluded]. The onset is to have occurred at least two years after initial exposure at any covered facility during a covered time period.

b. Primary or Secondary Lung Cancer. (In situ lung cancer that is discovered during or after a post-mortem exam is excluded.)

c. Primary or Secondary Bone Cancer. This includes myelodysplastic syndrome, myelofibrosis with myeloid metaplasia, essential thrombocytosis or essential thrombocythemia, and primary polycythemia vera (also called polycythemia rubra vera, P. vera, primary polycythemia, proliferative polycythemia, spent-phase polycythemia, or primary erythremia). (Note: Cancer of the hard palate is not bone cancer.)

d. Primary or Secondary Renal Cancers.

e. Other Diseases. For the following diseases, onset must have been at least five years after initial exposure at any covered facility during a covered time period:

(1) Multiple myeloma

(2) Lymphomas (other than Hodgkin’s disease). Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia is considered to be a type of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

(3) Primary cancer of the:

(a) Thyroid;

(b) Male or female breast;

(c) Esophagus;

(d) Stomach;

(e) Pharynx – The pharynx has 3 parts - nasopharynx, oropharynx and hypopharynx. (The oropharynx includes the soft palate, the base of the tongue, and the tonsils);

(f) Small intestine;

(g) Pancreas;

(h) Bile ducts (includes Ampulla of Vater, a/k/a hepatopancreatic ampulla);

(i) Gallbladder;

(j) Salivary gland;

(k) Urinary bladder;

(l) Brain (malignancies only).

(m) Colon (includes rectum and appendix);

(n) Ovary;

(o) Liver (except if cirrhosis or hepatitis B is indicated);