The Board found that the veteran's thyroid cancer was not incurred in or aggravated by active service and may not be presumed to have been so incurred.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not show radiation exposure during service, and there was no direct service connection established for the condition.
- Claimed conditions
- postoperative residuals of thyroid cancer
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 28, 2001
- Citation
- 0121682
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