The Board denied the appellant's claims for service connection for laryngeal and vocal cord cancer, finding that there was no evidence to support a link between his cancers and exposure to ionizing radiation in service.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence did not provide sufficient information to establish a causal relationship between the appellant's cancers and exposure to ionizing radiation during service.
- Claimed conditions
- laryngeal cancer, vocal cord cancer
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 16, 2001
- Citation
- 0113784
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