Cancers
VA Benefits for Cancer After Military Service?
Did you develop cancer years after
discharge from military service?
Exposure to toxins, radiation, stressors, and other in-service events can lead to the development of a wide variety of cancers even decades after returning home.
Our medical experts provide VA nexus letters to service connect various forms of cancer. Often, these cancers are the result of exposure to toxins like Agent Orange, contaminated water at Camp Lejeune, contaminated Superfund sites, jet fuel, TCE from parts cleaners, and asbestos.
Types of cancer commonly associated
with military service include:
- Acute myeloid leukemia
- B-cell lymphoma
- Basal cell carcinoma
- Bladder cancer
- Bone cancer
- Brain cancer / glioblastoma
- Cervical cancer
- Chronic B-cell leukemia
- Chronic lymphocytic lymphoma
- Chronic myelogenous leukemia
- Colon cancer
- Esophageal cancer
- Hodgkin’s disease
- Kidney cancer
- Liver cancer
- Lung cancer
- Multiple myeloma
- Myoproliferative neoplasms
- Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
- Ovarian cancer
- Pancreatic cancer
- Papillary thyroid carcinoma
- Prostate cancer
- Rectal cancer
- Renal cell carcinoma
- Small cell carcinoma
- Soft tissue cancers
- Testicular cancer
- Throat cancer
- Thyroid cancer
- Trachea cancer
No matter what type of cancer you have been diagnosed with, our veteran-focused medical professionals at Elite Medical Review Associates will examine all potential links to service and prepare a strong, convincing nexus letter to submit with your VA benefits claim.
Decades of experience with veterans’ disability claims, our doctors are renowned for their meticulous research, recognition of all relevant scientific links between service events and cancers, and diligent nexus letter preparation.