The Board denied the appellant's claims for DIC benefits, finding that there was no service connection for the cause of death and denying her claim under 38 U.S.C.A. § 1151 due to lack of evidence supporting misdiagnosis or untimely treatment.
The deciding factor: Service connection could not be granted as there was no medical evidence or opinion to support the appellant's contentions of misdiagnosis and untimely treatment.
- Claimed conditions
- Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 24, 2002
- Citation
- 0205170
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