The veteran's lung cancer is presumed to be due to exposure to ionizing radiation in service, and he is granted service connection for this condition. The other conditions are not presumed to be due to exposure to ionizing radiation in service.
The deciding factor: Lung cancer was diagnosed after the veteran served as part of the American occupation forces in Nagasaki, Japan, during a period of war. As a radiation-exposed veteran, lung cancer is presumed to be due to exposure to ionizing radiation in service and thus service connection is granted.
- Claimed conditions
- lung cancer, chronic heart disability, benign prostate hypertrophy, hypothyroidism
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 11, 2002
- Citation
- 0214264
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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