The Board denied the appellant's claim for service connection for the cause of her husband's death, finding that there was no evidence linking his fatal cancer to any incident in service or to exposure to ionizing radiation.
The deciding factor: The veteran's fatal metastatic carcinoma to the brain and lungs due to transitional cell carcinoma of the left ureter was not shown by medical evidence to have manifested within the first year after service, nor was it related to any incident in service including claimed exposure to ionizing radiation.
- Claimed conditions
- carcinoma of the brain, metastatic carcinoma to the brain and lungs, transitional cell carcinoma of the left ureter
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 14, 2003
- Citation
- 0300774
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