The Board has determined that new and material evidence has not been presented to reopen the veteran's claims for service connection for COPD, liver and pancreas masses, and residuals of left kidney carcinoma with nephrectomy and renal failure. The RO decisions denying these claims were final.
The deciding factor: No new and material evidence was submitted to support reopening any of the previously denied claims.
- Claimed conditions
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Masses or Tumors of the Liver and Pancreas, Residuals of Left Kidney Carcinoma with Nephrectomy and Renal Failure
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 24, 2003
- Citation
- 0329012
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What this means for you
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