The Board denied the veteran's application to reopen his previously denied claim of entitlement to service connection for multiple cancers (claimed as lymphosarcoma and lung cancer) due to exposure to X-ray radiation during active duty, finding no new and material evidence.
The deciding factor: No new and material evidence was submitted to support the veteran's claim of service connection for multiple cancers allegedly caused by exposure to X-ray radiation during his military service.
- Claimed conditions
- multiple cancers
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- Ionizing radiation
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 13, 2004
- Citation
- 0401185
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