The Veteran's prostate cancer rating was reduced from 100% to 20%, effective June 1, 2012. The Board has ordered a remand due to the need for additional development regarding the current severity of his service-connected condition.
The deciding factor: The reduction in disability rating was improper as there is evidence indicating that the Veteran's cancer may have recurred or worsened.
- Claimed conditions
- status post prostatectomy, malignant neoplasms of the genitourinary system
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 16, 2015
- Citation
- 1539693
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What this means for you
A remand is not a loss. The Board sent the case back for more development — often a new exam or missing records — before making a final decision. Many remands later end in a grant, and the decision spells out exactly what the Board wanted to see.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Veteran's combined disability rating is currently 90 percent, which meets the minimum requirements for consideration of a schedular TDIU. The Board determines that his service-connected PTSD, prostate cancer, status post prostatectomy and asthma disabilities, in combination, render him unable to secure and follow a substantially gainful occupation, resulting in a grant of TDIU. SMC at the housebound rate is denied as there are no independent 60 percent rated disabilities.
- Granted
The Veteran's service connection claim for prostate cancer is granted because the medical evidence establishes a link between his in-service prostatitis and his current prostate cancer.
- Dismissed
Your claims for service connection for malignant neoplasms of the genitourinary system and Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma have been fully granted in an August 2023 rating decision. The appeal is dismissed as moot because the benefits sought have been granted.
- Granted
The Veteran was granted a TDIU on an extraschedular basis from March 1, 2013, due to his service-connected status post prostatectomy.,SMC at the housebound rate was also granted for the period from July 2, 2017, to January 31, 2018.
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