The Board denied the claim for service connection for cause of death due to exposure to ionizing radiation as there was no evidence of such exposure and the veteran's death was not caused by a service-connected disability.
The deciding factor: The veteran did not meet the definition of a 'radiation-exposed veteran' and therefore, the laws governing service connection due to exposure to ionizing radiation have no applicability in this case.
- Claimed conditions
- bronchial pneumonia, hepatic failure, cancer of the bladder with metastasis
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 27, 2000
- Citation
- 0002010
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What this means for you
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