What can I claim secondary to endometriosis?
3 conditions in the Repatriation Medical Authority's Statements of Principles list endometriosis as a factor. If DVA has accepted your endometriosis, each of these has a documented pathway to a further claim.
At a glance
- Accepted conditionEndometriosis
- Conditions it may open3
- SourceRMA SoPs
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How a secondary claim works
Some Statement of Principles factors are not about service at all — they name another condition. Where DVA has already accepted your endometriosis, and another condition's SoP lists endometriosis as a factor, that part of the next claim is already established on your file. How a secondary claim works, in full →
Conditions that list endometriosis as a factor
Quoted from the instrument. A pathway existing is not the same as a claim succeeding — each factor carries thresholds your record has to satisfy.
Diaphragmatic hernia
RH No. 99 of 2022 · BoP No. 100 of 2022
Reasonable Hypothesis — factor (4): “having endometriosis involving the affected region of the diaphragm before the clinical onset of diaphragmatic hernia” [clinical onset] — factor (8): “having endometriosis involving the affected region of the diaphragm before the clinical worsening of diaphragmatic hernia” [worsening]
Balance of Probabilities — factor (3): “having endometriosis involving the affected region of the diaphragm before the clinical onset of diaphragmatic hernia” [clinical onset] — factor (6): “having endometriosis involving the affected region of the diaphragm before the clinical worsening of diaphragmatic hernia” [worsening]
Malignant neoplasm of the ovary
RH No. 9 of 2018 · BoP No. 10 of 2018
Reasonable Hypothesis — factor (1): “having endometriosis for at least five years before the clinical onset of malignant neoplasm of the ovary” [clinical onset]
Balance of Probabilities — factor (1): “having endometriosis for at least five years before the clinical onset of malignant neoplasm of the ovary” [clinical onset]
Peritoneal adhesions
RH No. 9 of 2025 · BoP No. 10 of 2025
Reasonable Hypothesis — factor (2): “having one of the following diseases at least 3 days before clinical onset: (a) appendicitis; (b) cholecystitis; (c) diverticulitis; (d) endometriosis; (e) inflammatory bowel disease; (f) pancreatitis; (g) pelvic inflammatory disease” [clinical onset]
Balance of Probabilities — factor (2): “having one of the following diseases at least 3 days before clinical onset: (a) appendicitis; (b) cholecystitis; (c) diverticulitis; (d) endometriosis; (e) inflammatory bowel disease; (f) pancreatitis; (g) pelvic inflammatory disease” [clinical onset]
Other accepted conditions that also open diaphragmatic hernia
If any of these is also on your file, it reaches some of the same conditions endometriosis does.
What DVA means by endometriosis
A claim is tested against the definition first. If the diagnosis on your file does not meet this wording, the factors below never get reached — so it is worth checking that what your doctor wrote matches what the instrument requires.
Endometriosis, for the purposes of the Statement of Principles, for the purposes of this Statement of Principles, endometriosis: (a) means a condition in females in which functional endometrial tissue occurs outside the uterus, resulting in clinical symptoms and signs or warranting treatment; and (b) excludes adenomyosis.
Note the exclusion. This instrument expressly excludes adenomyosis. A diagnosis of that is not a diagnosis of endometriosis, and a claim framed the wrong way fails on the definition before any factor is considered.
Aggravation-only factors. In this instrument, subsections 9(9) to 9(13) apply only to material contribution to, or aggravation of, endometriosis where it was already present before or during service. If service caused endometriosis outright, those factors are not available to you.
RH No. 51 of 2021 · BoP No. 52 of 2021 · 4 factors
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