The Veteran's bladder cancer is granted service connection due to herbicide exposure, and his prostate cancer is also granted as secondary to the bladder cancer.
The deciding factor: Bladder cancer was found to be related to Agent Orange exposure, and prostate cancer was found to metastasize from the now-service-connected bladder cancer.
- Claimed conditions
- Bladder cancer, Prostate cancer
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 24, 2019
- Citation
- A19002246
What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
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- Partly granted
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- Dismissed
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