The Board granted service connection for right renal cell carcinoma, finding an approximate balance of positive and negative evidence regarding its attribution to service.
The deciding factor: There is a medical dispute whether the Veteran's risk factors outweigh in-service herbicide agent exposure as a cause of renal dysfunction, but the Board gives the benefit of the doubt to the Veteran.
- Claimed conditions
- right renal cell carcinoma
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- April 24, 2025
- Citation
- A25037659
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 705 · Granted: 38% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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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.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claims for service connection due to a lack of an Individual Longitudinal Exposure Record (ILER) and potential burn pit exposure.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to a need for additional medical opinions regarding the Veteran's hypertension and its relation to service, as well as whether it contributed to his death.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for right renal cell carcinoma, finding no evidence linking the condition to the Veteran's service or herbicide exposure.
- Granted
The Veteran's acquired psychiatric disorder is granted as secondary to his service-connected renal cell carcinoma. The initial rating for right renal cell carcinoma and associated scarring are remanded, as well as the issue of service connection for a heart disorder related to renal cell carcinoma.
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