The Board denied the appellant's claims for service connection for the cause of her husband's death due to his service-connected diabetes mellitus, VA medical treatment failure, and exposure to ionizing radiation in service. The evidence did not support these claims.
The deciding factor: The preponderance of the credible and probative evidence showed that the veteran's lung cancer was not caused by or related to his service-connected diabetes mellitus, VA medical treatment failure, or exposure to ionizing radiation in service.
- Claimed conditions
- diabetes mellitus, lung cancer
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 17, 2001
- Citation
- 0111190
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