The Board has determined that the veteran's renal cancer, which resulted from exposure to ionizing radiation during his service in Japan, is presumptively service-connected.
The deciding factor: The December 1990 dose estimate of the Defense Nuclear Agency and the May 1991 statement from the VA Assistant Chief Medical Director for Environmental Medicine provided evidence against the claim, but no alternate dose estimate was available to rebut this presumption.
- Claimed conditions
- postoperative residuals of renal cancer, renal cancer
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- Gulf War
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 4, 2003
- Citation
- 0311517
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