The Veteran's prostate disability was reduced from a 100 percent rating to a 20 percent rating effective July 1, 2007. The Board found that the reduction was proper and denied his claim for an increased rating.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not show any reoccurrence or metastasis of prostate cancer at the time of the April 2007 rating decision, which is required to warrant a higher rating under DC 7528.
- Claimed conditions
- prostate adenocarcinoma
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- May 4, 2009
- Citation
- 0916540
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