The Board is unable to determine whether the veteran's cause of death was service-connected due to new and material evidence not having been submitted, but also noting that there is no indication of exposure to herbicides or other presumed conditions.
The deciding factor: New and material evidence has not been received to reopen the claim for service connection for the cause of the veteran's death.
- Claimed conditions
- Adenocarcinoma of the tail of the pancreas, Bilateral bronchopneumonia
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 21, 2003
- Citation
- 0309448
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,500 · Granted: 17% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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