The numbers are small -- only 100 or so veterans come down with it every year -- but this cancer is especially deadly: male breast cancer. Beginning in 2024 it was added as a presumptive on the VA’s list of illnesses that were automatically covered, courtesy of the PACT Act, due to toxin exposure.
And now it’s been yanked off that list, per a couple of internet websites and street rumors that are flying fast and furious.
Word is that any veteran with a diagnosis of male breast cancer is going to have to scramble and fight to get the VA to accept that it was caused by exposure to toxins and provide treatment.