The Board denied the claim for service connection for the cause of the veteran's death, as secondary to exposure to ionizing radiation due to lack of evidence supporting a well-grounded claim.
The deciding factor: The appellant failed to submit objective evidence that either the presumption of service connection for a radiation-exposed veteran or the criteria for initial review of claims have been met.
- Claimed conditions
- metastatic renal cell carcinoma
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 3, 2000
- Citation
- 0017552
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What this means for you
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