The Board found that VA's failure to conduct a breast examination in March 1995 contributed to the diagnosis and treatment of the veteran's right breast cancer, resulting in additional disability. The claim is granted.
The deciding factor: VA's failure to conduct a breast examination in March 1995 likely delayed an earlier biopsy that could have detected the cancer sooner.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Breast Cancer
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 4, 2004
- Citation
- 0414452
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Decisions by this judge: 1,419 · Granted: 21% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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- Granted
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