Granted
The Board granted service connection for a disability manifested by chronic pain throughout the body, including gout, as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected prostate and metastatic bone cancers.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner opined that the Veteran's chronic pain disorder was caused or aggravated by his service-connected prostate cancer with metastatic bone cancer to the spine.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic pain throughout the body, gout
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- October 21, 2025
- Citation
- 25013110
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