The Veteran's appeal for service connection for prostate cancer with residuals has been dismissed due to his death.
The deciding factor: The Veteran died during the pendency of the appeal, and as a result, the Board has no jurisdiction to adjudicate the merits of this appeal at this time.
- Claimed conditions
- prostate cancer with residuals
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 11, 2022
- Citation
- 22045570
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What this means for you
A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot. It says more about procedure than about whether a claim like this can win.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board has denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for prostate cancer with residuals and COPD, finding that there is no evidence to support a link between these conditions and his military service.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for prostate cancer with residuals, which is presumptively related to the Veteran's in-service herbicide exposure at U-Tapao base in Thailand during the Vietnam era.
- Partly granted
The Board granted a 60 percent rating for prostate cancer with residuals, denied ratings in excess of 10 percent for tachycardia and an initial compensable rating for erectile dysfunction, and granted service connection for a psychiatric disability.
- Partly granted
The veteran's effective date for service connection of a heart disability and prostate cancer was granted as August 2, 2019. The claims regarding clear and unmistakable error were dismissed.
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