VA Disability Benefits for Cancer

Описание: Veterans are often exposed to toxic substances in service that can result in developing a form of cancer. Learn about VA’s policies regarding certain exposures and cancer, ways cancer can manifest due to service, how cancer is rated for disability compensation, and how to build a strong VA claim for cancer during today's edition of CCK LIVE! Leave us questions or comments below and we'll get back to you!

Table of Contents:
0:00 Introduction
0:44 Introduction to Veterans (VA) Benefits for Cancer
2:35 Common Causes for Service-Connected Cancer: Agent Orange Exposure
3:12 Locations Where Veterans Were Exposed to Agent Orange
6:00 VA’s Presumptive Policies for Agent Orange Exposure
9:00 Cancers VA Presumes are Due to Agent Orange Exposure
10:35 Radiation Exposure Among Veterans: How Veterans May Have Been Exposed to Radiation
12:30 Cancers VA Presumes to be Caused by Radiation and VA’s Policies
15:10 Depleted Uranium Exposure Among Gulf War and Post-9/11 Veterans
15:57 Camp Lejeune Water Contamination and VA’s Presumptive Policy
16:27 Cancers Caused by Toxic Water at Camp Lejeune
17:21 Burn Pit Exposure
18:46 Burn Pits: The New Agent Orange. Similar Chemicals, Similar Cancers
20:45 Occupational (MOS) Hazards and Cancer: Asbestos, Industrial Solvents
23:33 VA Disability Ratings for Cancer: How Does VA Rate Cancer?
25:00 Cancer in Remission? VA Rates Veterans based on Residuals
26:34 Advice from CCK for VA Cancer Claims

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