The Veteran's kidney disability, specifically renal carcinoma, was granted a 100% evaluation effective January 18, 1996. The Board found that the evidence is in relative equipoise as to whether a mass on the left kidney was malignant and identified as renal carcinoma on May 13, 1993.
The deciding factor: The VHA oncologist's opinion indicated that the likelihood of malignancy in a simple cyst varied between 31 and 100 percent. The growth rate of small renal tumors was variable, but if a cyst took less than two years to change from a simple cyst to a mass, one would expect it to show more than just pathological stage T1.
- Claimed conditions
- Renal Carcinoma
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- February 17, 2012
- Citation
- 1206181
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