The Board has granted the Veteran's claim for service connection for a right hip disability, to include degenerative joint disease and right flank pain, as secondary to his service-connected prostate cancer.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner provided an addendum opinion stating that the radiation treatment for the Veteran's service-connected prostate cancer aggravated his current right hip DJD and right flank pain.
- Claimed conditions
- right hip degenerative joint disease (DJD), right flank pain
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 25, 2022
- Citation
- 22030994
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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.
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- Granted
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