The Board found that the veteran's service-connected disabilities did not contribute substantially or materially to his death from glioblastoma multiform, and denied service connection for the cause of the veteran's death.
The deciding factor: There was no medical evidence showing a nexus between the veteran's brain cancer and his service-connected disabilities or exposure to Agent Orange.
- Claimed conditions
- glioblastoma multiform
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- February 11, 2003
- Citation
- 0302626
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Decisions by this judge: 1,055 · Granted: 31% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board has determined that the Veteran's cause of death, glioblastoma multiform, may be related to his presumed exposure to herbicide agents in service. As a result, the claim for service connection for the cause of death is granted.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Veteran's cause of death, glioblastoma multiform, was not incurred in or aggravated by active service and cannot be presumed to have been incurred therein.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board finds that the evidence is in equipoise as to whether the Veteran's service-connected disabilities contributed substantially and materially to his death, specifically from glioblastoma multiform and sepsis. Therefore, service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death is granted.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied the appellant's claim of service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death in March 1998. The Court affirmed this decision in September 1999. The appellant attempted to reopen her previously denied claim twice, but new and material evidence was not submitted. As no new evidence has been submitted since the last final denial, the petition to reopen is denied.
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