The Board granted service connection for erectile dysfunction (ED) secondary to prostate cancer and an initial 70 percent rating for other specified trauma and stressor-related disorder.
The deciding factor: The evidence was at least evenly balanced as to whether the Veteran's ED was caused by his service-connected prostate cancer, and reasonable doubt was resolved in favor of the Veteran. For the other specified trauma and stressor-related disorder, the symptoms more nearly approximated occupational and social impairment with deficiencies in most areas but not total occupational and social impairment.
- Claimed conditions
- Erectile Dysfunction (ED), Other specified trauma and stressor-related disorder
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- June 24, 2025
- Citation
- A25054564
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.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for various disabilities and denied higher ratings for several service-connected conditions.
- Partly granted
The Board granted earlier effective dates for TDIU and DEA benefits, service connection for ED as secondary to a depressive disorder, and special monthly compensation based on loss of use of a creative organ.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for a compensable disability rating for service-connected erectile dysfunction due to the absence of evidence of penile deformity.
- Granted
The Veteran's service-connected disabilities rendered him unable to secure and follow a substantially gainful occupation from July 7, 2017, but no earlier, to July 26, 2019, and he was granted basic eligibility for DEA benefits during the same period.
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