What can I claim secondary to myeloma?
1 condition in the Repatriation Medical Authority's Statements of Principles list myeloma as a factor. If DVA has accepted your myeloma, each of these has a documented pathway to a further claim.
At a glance
- Accepted conditionMyeloma
- Conditions it may open1
- SourceRMA SoPs
- Chart Review$600 + GST
How a secondary claim works
Some Statement of Principles factors are not about service at all — they name another condition. Where DVA has already accepted your myeloma, and another condition's SoP lists myeloma as a factor, that part of the next claim is already established on your file. How a secondary claim works, in full →
Conditions that list myeloma as a factor
Quoted from the instrument. A pathway existing is not the same as a claim succeeding — each factor carries thresholds your record has to satisfy.
Osteoporosis
RH No. 66 of 2024
Reasonable Hypothesis — factor (6): “having myeloma, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, Hodgkin lymphoma or systemic mastocytosis at the time of clinical onset or clinical worsening” [onset and worsening]
This factor appears in the Reasonable Hypothesis instrument only, which applies to operational service.
Note: systemic mastocytosis is defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.
Other accepted conditions that also open osteoporosis
If any of these is also on your file, it reaches some of the same conditions myeloma does.
What DVA means by myeloma
A claim is tested against the definition first. If the diagnosis on your file does not meet this wording, the factors below never get reached — so it is worth checking that what your doctor wrote matches what the instrument requires.
Myeloma, for the purposes of the Statement of Principles, for the purposes of this Statement of Principles, myeloma: (a) means a malignant disease of plasma cells, in which a single line of plasma cells accumulates and produces a monoclonal immunoglobulin; and (b) includes: (i) extramedullary plasmacytoma; (ii) multiple myeloma; (iii) plasma cell leukaemia; and (iv) solitary plasmacytoma of bone. (3) While myeloma attracts ICD-10-AM code C90, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of myeloma is that given in subsection (2). (4) For subsection (3), a reference to an ICD-10-AM code is a reference to the code assigned to a particular kind of injury or disease in The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision, Australian Modification (ICD-10-AM), Tenth Edition, effective date of 1 July 2017, copyrighted by the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, ISBN 978-1-76007-296-4.
Aggravation-only factors. In this instrument, subsections 9(10) apply only to material contribution to, or aggravation of, myeloma where it was already present before or during service. If service caused myeloma outright, those factors are not available to you.
RH No. 95 of 2021 · BoP No. 96 of 2021 · 3 factors
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