Remanded (sent back)PACT Act
The Board remands the claim for an earlier effective date for service connection of prostate cancer with voiding dysfunction due to a duty to assist error in not considering exposure to herbicide agents in Guam and failing to obtain an opinion on direct service connection.
The deciding factor: The AOJ's failure to consider all theories of entitlement, including direct service connection, constitutes a regulatory and statutory duty to assist error.
- Claimed conditions
- prostate cancer with voiding dysfunction
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 4, 2025
- Citation
- A25019772
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