Conclusively presumed conditions

If you served in the Gulf Conflict between 20 December 1990 and 13 April 1991 we'll accept as service-related:

• chronic fatigue syndrome
• fibromyalgia, or
• irritable bowel syndrome.

For these to be accepted as service-related you must have had them for over six months.

If you served in Viet Nam between 29 May 1964 and March 1975 we'll automatically accept as service-related:

• AL-type primary amyloidosis
• chloracne
• type 2 diabetes
• Ischaemic Heart Disease
• hodgkin’s disease
• hypertension
• non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
• chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, including hairy-cell leukaemia and other chronic B–Cell leukaemia’s
• multiple myeloma
• acute and subacute peripheral neuropathy
• Parkinson’s Disease
• porphyria cutanea tarda
• prostate cancer
• respiratory cancers in the lung, bronchus, larynx, trachea.
• soft-tissue sarcoma
• stroke.

We accept that you may have unfortunately been exposed to nuclear radiation if you served:

• as part of the British Occupation Force of Japan between 1946 and 1952 (J Force)
• on HMNZS Rotoiti as part of Operation Grapple from 15 May 1957 to 8 November 1957
• on HMNZS Pukaki from 15 May 1957 to 8 November 1957
• on HMNZS Pukaki from 28 April 1958 to 23 September 1958
• on HMNZS Otago on 22 July 1973 near Mururoa
• on HMNZS Canterbury on 28 July 1973.

If you have been exposed to nuclear radiation, we'll automatically accept as service-related:

• all forms of leukaemia—except for chronic lymphocytic leukaemia
• lymphomas—other than Hodgkin’s disease
• multiple myeloma
• primary liver cancer—except if cirrhosis or hepatitis B is indicated.

We'll also automatically accept—as service-related—cancer of the:

• bile ducts
• brain
• breast
• bone
• colon
• lung
• bronchioloalveolar carcinoma
• gall bladder
• oesophagus
• ovary
• pancreas
• pharynx
• salivary gland
• small intestine
• stomach
• thyroid
• urinary tract—renal, ureter, urinary bladder, or urethra.

If you were a prisoner of war — for any length of time — during the Second World War we'll automatically accept as service-related:

• any of the anxiety states
• beriberi
• chronic dysentery
• cirrhosis of the liver
• dysthymia
• heart disease or hypertensive vascular disease and their complications
• helminthiasis (intestinal vermiform parasites)
• hypovitaminosis
• irritable bowel syndrome
• malnutrition (including optic atrophy)
• organic residual of frostbite or trench foot
• pellagra and/or other nutritional deficiencies
• peptic ulcer disease
• peripheral neuropathy
• post-traumatic osteoarthritis
• psychosis
• stroke and residuals of stroke.