The Veteran's claim for an effective date earlier than December 8, 2005, for the grant of service connection for adenocarcinoma of the prostate was denied. The RO granted service connection with a 100% schedular evaluation as of December 8, 2005, which is the date of receipt of his claim.
The deciding factor: The effective date cannot be earlier than the date of receipt of the claim due to the liberalizing law that added prostate cancer as a disease presumptively due to in-service exposure to herbicides, and the Veteran's claim was received more than one year after this effective date.
- Claimed conditions
- adenocarcinoma of the prostate
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 1, 2009
- Citation
- 0920331
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