The Board has dismissed the Veteran's appeals regarding service connection for chronic myelogenous leukemia and urinary dysfunction as there is no valid decision within one year prior to September 20, 2020.
The deciding factor: There was no valid decision within one year of the date listed in the VA Form 10182 (September 20, 2019) for the issues listed.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), urinary dysfunction
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 27, 2024
- Citation
- A24050315
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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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot.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.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's appeal for a TDIU based on his service-connected prostate cancer residuals with urinary dysfunction is dismissed as moot because he is already receiving a 100% disability rating.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for chronic myelogenous leukemia, finding that the Veteran's current diagnosis is not related to his in-service herbicide exposure.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's petition to restore a 20 percent rating for his service-connected sebaceous cyst of the scrotum has been granted. The reduction from 20 percent to noncompensable was improper.,Service connection for urinary dysfunction, which is no longer considered part and parcel of the service-connected sebaceous cyst, remains in dispute.
- Granted
The Veteran's chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) is found to be related to his service exposure to herbicide agents, specifically Agent Orange. The Board granted the claim after finding that the evidence was in equipoise as to whether the condition was due to service.
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