Burn Pits And Particulates Presumptive Conditions And Service Rules

VA lists statutory toxic-exposure conditions, a separate fine-particulate rule and additional 2025 cancer rules. Dates and locations differ by pathway. Broad cancer categories are retained; selected named subtypes are also searchable. A listed exposure does not determine an individual benefit award.

Listed Locations And Date Groups

• Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and United Arab EmiratesOn or after August 2, 1990
• Afghanistan, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Uzbekistan and YemenOn or after September 11, 2001
• Southwest Asia theater, including specified waters and airspaceOn or after August 2, 1990, during the Persian Gulf War
• Afghanistan, Syria, Djibouti and Uzbekistan under the particulate ruleOn or after September 19, 2001, during the Persian Gulf War
• Southwest Asia theater and Somalia under the 2025 cancer rulesOn or after August 2, 1990
• Afghanistan, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Uzbekistan and Yemen under the 2025 rulesOn or after September 11, 2001

Condition References

• Brain cancer
• Gastrointestinal cancer of any type
• Glioblastoma
• Head cancer of any type
• Kidney cancer
• Lymphoma of any type
• Melanoma
• Neck cancer of any type
• Pancreatic cancer
• Reproductive cancer of any type
• Respiratory cancer of any type
• Asthma
• Chronic bronchitis
• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
• Rhinitis
• Sinusitis, including rhinosinusitis
• Constrictive bronchiolitis or obliterative bronchiolitis
• Emphysema
• Granulomatous disease
• Interstitial lung disease
• Pleuritis
• Pulmonary fibrosis
• Sarcoidosis
• Squamous cell carcinoma of the larynx
• Squamous cell carcinoma of the trachea
• Adenocarcinoma of the trachea
• Salivary gland-type tumors of the trachea
• 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
• Bladder cancer
• Ureter cancer
• Acute leukemias
• Chronic leukemias
• Multiple myeloma
• Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS)
• Myelodysplastic syndromes
• Myelofibrosis
• Male breast cancer
• Urethral cancer
• Cancer of the paraurethral glands

Scope And Legal Distinctions

• This is a public compensation reference, not a personal eligibility or medical determination. Every row retains source-specific service, timing and activity limits.
• Location labels sometimes group places that share the same rule. Different legal pathways remain separate even when a condition or location appears more than once.
• Broad statutory cancer categories are not expanded into every pathology synonym. VA says its cancer examples are non-exhaustive. The nine named rare respiratory cancers and selected later named additions are listed separately.
• Affected C-123 unit dates and specialty codes remain in the linked VA unit table. The overall 1962-1986 span is not a blanket service window. Special Exposure Cohort designations also require the specific site, duties and duration; they are not all enumerated here.
• The changelog contains documented milestones verified in this research pass, not every historical amendment to every presumption. No later addition is asserted merely because it appeared in a proposal or regulatory agenda.
• Other presumptive programs, birth-defect benefits, health-care enrollment rules, individual exposure determinations and radiation dose-development claims are outside this table.

Current Gulf War Statute And Older Regulation Text

38 U.S.C. 1117 now permits a qualifying chronic disability to manifest to any degree at any time and adds six countries. Older limits remain printed in 38 CFR 3.317(a). The chronic-illness rows follow the current statute and VA guidance; the separate infectious-disease manifestation rules remain explicit.

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Herbicide Dates And Current Statutory Conditions

The Korean DMZ window uses September 1, 1967, and the Guam/American Samoa window ends July 31, 1980. These follow current statutes and the VA disability page. Older or inconsistent summaries were not used to narrow these dates. Statutory conditions absent from the older regulatory list are still included.

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Grouped Cancer Names Do Not Broaden Anatomical Restrictions

The anatomical category and primary diagnosis matter. A named subtype may also appear under a broader category; these rows do not establish separate payments for the same disability. Radiation and herbicide exclusions remain attached to their particular pathways.

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