---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 30.211"
title: "20"
number: "30.211"
heading: "How does a claimant establish that the employee has or had contracted cancer?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/30.211"
---

# §30.211. How does a claimant establish that the employee has or had contracted cancer?


A claimant establishes that the employee has or had contracted a specified cancer (as defined in [§ 30.5(gg)](/cfr/20/30.5.md?p=gg)) or other cancer with medical evidence that sets forth an explicit diagnosis of cancer and the date on which that diagnosis was first made.


## Notes

### Amendments

[84 FR 3049, Feb. 8, 2019]

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 31 U.S.C. 3716 and 3717; 42 U.S.C. 7384d, 7384t, 7384u and 7385s-10; Executive Order 13179, 65 FR 77487, 3 CFR, 2000 Comp., p. 321; Secretary of Labor's Order No. 10-2009, 74 FR 58834.

### Source

Source: 71 FR 78534, Dec. 29, 2006, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[84 FR 3049, Feb. 8, 2019]