The Board granted a rating of 40 percent, but no higher, for prostate cancer residuals, to include voiding dysfunction, effective December 1, 2020.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's urinary frequency more closely approximates the criteria for a 40 percent rating based on daytime voiding interval less than one hour and awakening to void five or more times per night.
- Claimed conditions
- prostate cancer residuals, to include voiding dysfunction
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 40%
- Decision date
- October 30, 2024
- Citation
- A24070263
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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Partly granted
The Board granted a 40 percent evaluation for prostate cancer residuals from January 29, 2014 to August 12, 2021.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) due to his service-connected disabilities, including prostate cancer residuals, hearing loss, tinnitus, and erectile dysfunction.
- Dismissed
The appeal of a proposal to reduce the rating for service-connected prostate cancer residuals from 100 percent to 40 percent is dismissed as it was not a final decision.
- Granted
The Veteran's prostate cancer residuals are granted a 60 percent rating from July 7, 2023.
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