The Board denied the Veteran's claims for service connection of acquired psychiatric disability, nerve damage to the bowel, and nerve damage to the kidneys as secondary to prostate cancer. The appeal was not granted.
The deciding factor: New evidence did not raise a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim for PTSD, anxiety, depression, or anger.
- Claimed conditions
- Acquired psychiatric disability (PTSD, depression, anxiety), Nerve damage to the bowel, Nerve damage to the kidneys
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 29, 2020
- Citation
- 20036991
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