The veteran's prostate cancer residuals are currently rated as 40 percent disabling, and the Board has determined that a 60 percent evaluation is warranted.,For the period from May 31, 1996 to the present, the veteran's bilateral hearing loss is rated as noncompensable. For the period from October 10, 2000 onward, the rating for positional vertigo has been increased to a 10 percent evaluation.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence demonstrates that the veteran experiences urinary frequency necessitating daytime voiding once approximately every 30 minutes and episodes of bowel and bladder incontinence requiring absorbent undergarments changed more than 4 times per day.
- Claimed conditions
- Residuals of Prostate Cancer, Status-Post Radical Prostatectomy with Urinary and Stool Incontinence
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- June 21, 2002
- Citation
- 0206699
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