The Board denied service connection for the cause of the veteran's death due to a lack of competent medical evidence linking his cancer to his military service.
The deciding factor: No medical opinion or other professional evidence relating the veteran's death from cancer to service was presented.
- Claimed conditions
- metastatic oat cell carcinoma of the lungs
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 21, 2004
- Citation
- 0415965
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What this means for you
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