The Board has reopened the claim for service connection for stage 1 anaplastic seminoma of the testicle, status post orchiectomy and granted it. The left eye disorder is not related to service.
The deciding factor: A VA examiner opined that the left eye disorder was at least as likely as not related to service occupational conditions, including exposure to welding during service.
- Claimed conditions
- stage 1 anaplastic seminoma of the testicle, status post orchiectomy, blindness in the left eye
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 3, 2006
- Citation
- 0612792
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