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Ever make a disability claim based on being on ADT?
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: 16 hours ago | Replies (9)Comment receiving replies
If you have had a recurrence of prostate cancer after treatment, you are automatically eligible for disability payments from SSA. Google their Compassionate Allowance program. As to your private insurance - I have no idea, but if you qualify for SSA’s disability program, maybe that automatically qualifies you for the private insurance.
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I'm in Ontario, and provincial government disability payments (ODSP) are means-tested, so I wouldn't qualify. They're also pretty measly.
I haven't had a recurrence per se because my cancer is stage 4 and will never go away, but it is under good control now and I expect many years of stability on ADT + Apalutamide. I had a lot of back and forth with my private insurer for the first couple of years (all very civil), and we seem to have both settled down to a compromise where I claim only half disability even when I'm not working (since I'm physically capable of working half time), and they don't make me keep filing monthly reports and doctors' notes to prove I can't work full-time (since my cancer and spinal injury are never going away and I have to stay on ADT forever, with all the side-effects).
I had no idea that a person might be eligible for SSDI with recurring prostate cancer. I never considered the possibility of SSDI until now, at age 66. I have recurring prostate cancer, post-RP, and now I have lymph node metastasis, and I am currently on Lupron. I might reconsider and apply for SSDI.
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Even if you get a recurrence after RP and go on SRT?