The VA has added three types of cancer to the list of presumptive illnesses and disabilities that it will consider to be service-connected. “Presumptive” means the VA “presumes” your condition was caused by your service, which means you don’t have to prove anything.

The three new conditions are male breast cancer, urethral cancer and cancer of the paraurethral glands.

If you were diagnosed with any of those three new cancers

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