Cancerous tumor originating in or spreading to the bone.
While the cancer is active or being treated, medical records confirming the diagnosis of a primary or secondary malignant bone tumor are central. Pathology or biopsy reports, imaging studies such as bone scans, CT, or MRI, and treatment records showing surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy all document that the condition exists and that treatment is ongoing or recently ended.
After the one-year period following cessation of treatment, the focus shifts to residuals. Records showing follow-up imaging with no evidence of local recurrence or metastases are relevant, as are notes from oncology or orthopedic visits describing what lasting impairments remain — for example, limited range of motion, chronic pain, weakness, or bone loss at the treated site. If you have ongoing functional limitations, records from your treating providers and statements from you or people who know you describing how those residuals affect your work and daily activities help show the severity of whatever residual condition VA then uses to assign a rating.
Conditions that are often caused or made worse by this one. If you have any of these, they may be claimable as secondary service connection.
