The Board denied the appellant's request for an effective date earlier than January 22, 2009 for the grant of service connection for prostate cancer associated with herbicide exposure. The Veteran did not meet the criteria for service connection when the presumption based on Agent Orange exposure went into effect in 1996.
The deciding factor: The earliest effective date under law is January 22, 2009, as the claim was filed within one year of separation from active service and prostate cancer was not diagnosed until October 2001.
- Claimed conditions
- Prostate cancer
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 21, 2010
- Citation
- 1022981
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What this means for you
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