The Board has reopened the claim for service connection for the cause of the veteran's death due to new and material evidence, but has denied the claim as there is no competent evidence relating the bronchogenic carcinoma that caused his death to service.
The deciding factor: There was a lapse of many years between the veteran's separation from service in 1946 and the earliest medical evidence of treatment for bronchogenic carcinoma in 1990, which rendered it not related to service.
- Claimed conditions
- bronchogenic carcinoma
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 16, 2002
- Citation
- 0218134
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