The Board granted a 40 percent disability rating for the service-connected residuals of prostate cancer with urinary frequency, effective February 1, 2022.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's voiding dysfunction resulted in a daytime voiding interval between two and three hours and nighttime awakening to void three to four times per night, warranting a 40 percent rating.
- Claimed conditions
- prostate cancer with urinary frequency
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 40%
- Decision date
- June 11, 2025
- Citation
- A25051125
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Decisions by this judge: 2,677 · Granted: 26% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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