Arthritis

[dougbo1943]

I have the following question.

Does Arthritis have any kind of relationship to Agent Orange?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Gunny

[Guest jstacy]

I have the following question.

Does Arthritis have any kind of relationship to Agent Orange?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Gunny

Gunny, Here is the directive.

e) Disease associated with exposure to certain herbicide agents. If a veteran was exposed to an herbicide agent during active military, naval, or air service, the following diseases shall be service-connected if the requirements of §3.307(a)(6) are met even though there is no record of such disease during service, provided further that the rebuttable presumption provisions of §3.307(d) are also satisfied.

Chloracne or other acneform disease consistent with chloracne

Type 2 diabetes (also known as Type II diabetes mellitus or adult-onset diabetes)

Hodgkin's disease

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia

Multiple myeloma

Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma

Acute and subacute peripheral neuropathy

Porphyria cutanea tarda

Prostate cancer

Respiratory cancers (cancer of the lung, bronchus, larynx, or trachea)

Soft-tissue sarcoma (other than osteosarcoma, chondrosarcoma, Kaposi's sarcoma, or mesothelioma)

Note 1: The term “soft-tissue sarcoma” includes the following:

Adult fibrosarcoma

Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans

Malignant fibrous histiocytoma

Liposarcoma

Leiomyosarcoma

Epithelioid leiomyosarcoma (malignant leiomyoblastoma)

Rhabdomyosarcoma

Ectomesenchymoma

Angiosarcoma (hemangiosarcoma and lymphangiosarcoma)

Proliferating (systemic) angioendotheliomatosis

Malignant glomus tumor

Malignant hemangiopericytoma

Synovial sarcoma (malignant synovioma)

Malignant giant cell tumor of tendon sheath

Malignant schwannoma, including malignant schwannoma with rhabdomyoblastic differentiation (malignant Triton tumor), glandular and epithelioid malignant schwannomas

Malignant mesenchymoma

Malignant granular cell tumor

Alveolar soft part sarcoma

Epithelioid sarcoma

Clear cell sarcoma of tendons and aponeuroses

Extraskeletal Ewing's sarcoma

Congenital and infantile fibrosarcoma

Malignant ganglioneuroma

[dougbo1943]

jstacy

Thanks, I was trying to see how some people had gotten Arthritis SC.

Gunny

[KennyJ]

What was your MOS in service.. this could aid in getting Sc for arthritis sometimes

[Berta]

There are quite a few arthritis claims at the BVA web site.

Either the veteran claimed it as secondary to another SC condition,with medical evidence of the link- or the veteran's SMRs revealed it in service.

My neighbor has just been told by a VA doc that his arthritis , in back , hips and knee is more than likely due to a severe back injury well documented in his SMRs. This was supported by recent MRI results.

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jstacy

Thanks, I was trying to see how some people had gotten Arthritis SC.

Gunny

[qrdgv2tebc]

some people get service connected for arthritis, if they get pick for special duty in some kind of sport, i was on special duty for almost six years in the Army. i am S/C for Arthritis of all joints. due to my special duty.