The Board granted an earlier effective date of June 18, 2023 for the grant of service connection for right-sided facial paralysis and a rating of 30 percent for this condition. The claim was denied for other issues.
The deciding factor: The Veteran continuously pursued his initial August 2021 claim for service connection for right-sided facial paralysis, cranial nerve VI which is a condition that pre-existed the Veteran's service-connected metastatic ductal carcinoma of the parotid to the right lung to which the facial paralysis is secondarily service-connected to.
- Claimed conditions
- Metastatic ductal carcinoma of the parotid to the right lung, Right-sided facial paralysis, cranial nerve VI (secondary to metastatic ductal carcinoma of the parotid to the right lung)
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- November 6, 2025
- Citation
- A25096570
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