This could begin a new VA backlog

[Meddac]

If VA adds bladder cancer to the list of conditions presumptive to Agent Orange exposure then it could spell backlog (and Nehmer) once again for VA. Possibly a smaller backlog, but nonetheless a backlog. It's currently under review by VA once again.

https://www.propublica.org/article/vietnam-vets-push-va-to-link-bladder-cancer-to-agent-orange

I know there are many different pushes to have conditions or service areas added, but in my experience with VA they will attempt to take the smaller groups first. Go figure.

[broncovet]

Meddac

   Thank you for your insight.  It sounds like we mostly agree.  I dont have VA experience but I do have about 9 years hadit.com experience, plus 14 years experince dealing with VA as I actually applied in 2002.  

   There is a question I see over and over again, that Vets ask.  I will ask it in a seperate topic so I dont hijack your post.  

[Berta]

Buck those were the original AO diseases, circa...1991???forget when

and I know of VERY few vets who satisfied the PN reg at that time as well as the Chloracne reg ( James Cripps first CONUS AO vet did)  and a friend of my husband's ,who works for DOD, definitely had Chloracne, in my opinion, from his Vietnam service, and from what he said was in his SMRs,

 but never filed a claim for it. I don't know the date for addition of PTC.

As Chuck correctly stated, PN , with medical evidence of the association, can be service connected to diabetes and heart disease and stroke ,even if they are SCed under a non- AO  theory of entitlement.

A real doctor would also consider ruling in or out PAD (peripheral arterial disease ) as well, as that is rated separately from PN, if the etiology is also service connectable.

[Buck52]

Yes your right Ms Berta  As Usual. 

Thanks

...............Buck