The Board has denied the veteran's claims for a rating in excess of 40 percent for residuals of prostate cancer and a compensable rating for impotence, finding that the evidence does not support these increased ratings.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence did not show that the veteran required an appliance or needed to change absorbent materials more than 4 times per day for urinary incontinence, nor did it reflect penile deformity and loss of erectile power necessary for a compensable rating under Diagnostic Code 7522.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of prostate cancer, impotence
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 40%
- Decision date
- February 9, 2004
- Citation
- 0403562
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- Denied
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- Partly granted
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