The Board denied the appellant's claim for service connection for the cause of her husband's death, finding that there was no evidence to support a grant of such and noting that the veteran did not have any exposure to ionizing radiation during his military service.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the veteran was not exposed to ionizing radiation during his military service and therefore could not be considered a radiation-exposed veteran. The cause of death, metastatic melanoma, was also not linked to service-connected conditions or inservice exposure.
- Claimed conditions
- metastatic melanoma, cerebral hemorrhage
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 21, 2002
- Citation
- 0201700
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