Prostate cancer decisions — 2025

The Veteran is granted special monthly compensation based on the need for aid and attendance due to service-connected disabilities, other than bilateral lower extremity peripheral neuropathy, as well as based on loss of use of both legs due to service-connected bilateral lower extremity peripheral neuropathy.

The Board remands the claim for service connection for prostate cancer, to include as due to ionizing radiation, for further development and consideration under the PACT Act.

The Board remands the claim for service connection for prostate cancer to correct duty to assist errors, including obtaining an adequate medical opinion and associating relevant private treatment records with the claims file.

The Board remands the matter for further development, specifically to obtain private medical records and schedule a VA examination.

The Board granted an effective date of May 10, 1989, for the grant of service connection for tinnitus and dismissed the claim for an earlier effective date for bilateral hearing loss. Other claims were denied.

The Board granted service connection for ischemic heart disease and prostate cancer, both due to presumed exposure to herbicide agents during the Veteran's service in Vietnam.

The Board granted service connection for prostate cancer, finding that the evidence is persuasively weighted towards a relationship between the Veteran's toxic exposures during service and his current condition.

The Board granted service connection for prostate cancer, finding that the evidence is at least in approximate balance as to whether it is related to the Veteran's military service.

The Board remands the claim for service connection for prostate cancer to obtain a new medical opinion that considers all toxic exposure risk activities and their synergistic effects, as required by the PACT Act.

The Board remands the claims for an earlier effective date and TDIU due to a pre-decisional duty-to-assist error regarding active cancer status.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for prostate cancer and hypothyroidism due to a pre-decisional duty to assist error, requiring further development including medical examinations and opinions.

The Board finds sufficient evidence to substantiate a reasonable possibility that the Veteran is unemployable by reason of his service-connected disabilities, and remands the matter for referral to the Director of Compensation Service for an extraschedular TDIU determination.

The Board found that the reduction of the veteran's rating for prostate cancer from 100 percent to 40 percent was proper, and denied a higher rating for prostate cancer residuals.

The Board denied service connection for a psychiatric disability and denied ratings in excess of 0 percent for bilateral hearing loss prior to December 6, 2022, but granted a 10 percent rating for bilateral hearing loss effective December 6, 2022. The claim for a rating in excess of 0 percent for prostate cancer residuals was also denied.

The Board granted a 50 percent evaluation for PTSD with alcohol abuse from May 19, 2011 to June 17, 2012 and a 70 percent evaluation from July 21, 2015 to the present. The evaluations in excess of 50 percent were denied.

The appeal for service connection for prostate cancer is remanded due to a lack of compliance with previous Board directives regarding the evaluation of radiation exposure and additional TERA exposures.

The appeal of a proposed reduction in disability rating for prostate cancer from 100 percent to 40 percent is dismissed as there was no final agency action.

The Board denied the claim for Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC) under 38 U.S.C. § 1318, as the Veteran was not receiving or entitled to receive compensation for a service-connected disability rated totally disabling for a continuous period of at least 10 years immediately preceding death.

The Board denied service connection for prostate cancer, hypertension, and a gallbladder disability as there is no evidence of current disabilities.

The Board dismissed the appeal for service connection for bilateral hearing loss as it had already been granted. The claims for heart condition, PTSD, and prostate cancer were remanded due to a duty to assist error.