The Board granted a 60 percent initial rating for prostate cancer residuals and remanded the issue of service connection for additional residuals, including bladder, pelvic, and sacral metastases.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's use of a suprapubic catheter required more than four times daily changes, warranting a 60 percent rating under voiding dysfunction criteria. The Board also found that remand was necessary to address the additional residuals of prostate cancer treatment.
- Claimed conditions
- Prostate cancer residuals, Bladder, pelvic and sacral metastases
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- November 20, 2025
- Citation
- A25101103
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,726 · Granted: 19% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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