The Board found that the veteran's death from bladder cancer was not caused by any incident, injury or disease of active service and denied the claims for service connection for the cause of death and DIC pursuant to 38 U.S.C.A. § 1151.
The deciding factor: There is no clinical evidence showing a causal relationship between the veteran's exposure to acetic acid during service and his bladder cancer, which was first diagnosed over 25 years after service.
- Claimed conditions
- Bladder cancer
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 16, 2000
- Citation
- 0015975
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