The appeal regarding the proposed reduction of a 100 percent disability rating for service-connected voiding dysfunction as a residual of prostate cancer to 20 percent is dismissed.
The deciding factor: The July 2025 proposed rating reduction was not an initial decision and the Veteran can only perfect an appeal after VA issues notice of an initial decision on or after February 19, 2019.
- Claimed conditions
- voiding dysfunction as a residual of prostate cancer
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 6, 2025
- Citation
- A25096593
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,188 · Granted: 23% (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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot. It says more about procedure than about whether a claim like this can win.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for prostate cancer and remanded the claims for erectile dysfunction and voiding dysfunction as they may be related to the Veteran's service at Camp Lejeune.
- Partly granted
The Board denied the Veteran's claims for increased ratings and reinstatement of a 100 percent rating for prostate cancer, but granted a 40 percent rating from November 12, 2019, for voiding dysfunction as a residual of prostate cancer.
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