The Board granted service connection for painful joints, resolving reasonable doubt in favor of the Veteran and attributing the condition to his treatment for colon cancer.
The deciding factor: The private physician's letter provided competent evidence that the Veteran's joint pain is a result of his chemotherapy treatments for colon cancer, which are service-connected.
- Claimed conditions
- painful joints
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- June 13, 2025
- Citation
- A25052391
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,549 · Granted: 29% (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
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What you can do next
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claims for service connection for right and left ankle disabilities due to a duty-to-assist error.,Service connection will be considered based on the evidence of record.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for muscle pain and painful joints, as there was no evidence of a current disability related to these conditions during the Veteran's active duty or in the years following.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the service connection claim for painful joints as it is intertwined with another issue regarding the character of discharge from service.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine disabilities, bilateral pes planus and plantar fasciitis, tinnitus, chronic sinusitis, allergic rhinitis, digestive disabilities including irritable bowel syndrome with abdominal pain and nausea, pelvic organ disabilities, iron deficiency anemia, and genital herpes. Service connection was denied for acne, tendonitis, fibromyalgia, painful joints, left shin splints, right shin splints, left ankle condition, right ankle condition, left carpal tunnel syndrome, right carpal tunnel syndrome, respiratory infection, GERD, PTSD, anxiety condition, manic-depressive reaction, and psychiatric disorder other than unspecified depressive disorder with symptoms of suicidal ideation. An initial 50% rating was granted for the service-connected unspecified depressive disorder.
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