The Board denied the veteran's claim for service connection for postoperative prostate cancer, finding that it was not incurred or aggravated during service and could not be presumed to have been caused by exposure to ionizing radiation in service. The evidence did not support a conclusion that the prostate cancer resulted from such exposure.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence did not establish a link between the veteran's postoperative prostate cancer and his military service, including any potential exposure to ionizing radiation.
- Claimed conditions
- Postoperative Prostate Cancer
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 17, 2001
- Citation
- 0118564
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