The Board has reopened the appellant's claim for service connection for the cause of her husband's death and finds that it is at least as likely as not that his lung cancer, which led to his death, was caused by exposure to herbicides in Vietnam.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence is in equipoise regarding whether the veteran's lung cancer, presumed due to service in Vietnam, was caused by herbicide exposure. The Board resolves all doubt in favor of the appellant and grants service connection for the cause of her husband's death.
- Claimed conditions
- cause of death: poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma of the right upper lobe, metastatic poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma to other organs
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 3, 2001
- Citation
- 0109786
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