The Board found that the reduction in the rating assigned for service-connected residuals of prostate adenocarcinoma from 100 percent to 20 percent was proper, and restoration to a higher rating is not warranted.
The deciding factor: The evidence established that at the time of the August 2001 reduction decision, the veteran had daytime urinary voiding interval between one and two hours and awakened to void not more than three to four times per night. He did not have urinary retention or renal dysfunction.
- Claimed conditions
- prostate adenocarcinoma
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- March 12, 2003
- Citation
- 0304463
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