Clinical Pathway
Lung Cancer

VA automatically presumes that certain disabilities were caused by military service. This is because of the unique circumstances of a specific Veteran’s military service. If a presumed condition is diagnosed in a Veteran within a certain group, they can be awarded disability compensation.

Start Clinical Pathway for the Lung Cancer Last updated June, 2023
About Lung Cancer
  • Vietnam Veterans – Agent Orange Exposure or Specified Locations
    • Respiratory cancers
  • Atomic Veterans Exposed to Ionizing Radiation
    • Lung cancer
    • Bronchioloalveolar carcinoma
  • Gulf War and Post 9/11 Veterans
    If the patient served any amount of time in Afghanistan, Djibouti, Syria, or Uzbekistan during the Persian Gulf War, from Sept. 19, 2001, to the present or the Southwest Asia theater of operations from Aug. 2, 1990, to the present, specific conditions include:
    • Adenosquamous carcinoma of the lung
    • Large cell carcinoma of the lung
    • Salivary gland-type tumors of the lung
    • Sarcomatoid carcinoma of the lung
    • Typical and atypical carcinoid of the lung