The Board has granted the veteran's claim for payment of $1,280.17 in unauthorized medical expenses incurred on April 2, 2002 due to her service-connected postoperative cervical cancer.
The deciding factor: The treatment provided was for a service-connected disability and rendered in a medical emergency of such nature that delay would have been hazardous to health.
- Claimed conditions
- cervical cancer
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 21, 2004
- Citation
- 0429039
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What this means for you
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