The Board denied the appellant's claim for service connection for the cause of her husband's death, finding that hepatoma was not incurred in or aggravated by service and did not contribute substantially to his death.
The deciding factor: The veteran's service-connected disabilities did not cause or chronically worsen his fatal hepatoma, and they did not contribute substantially to his death.
- Claimed conditions
- metastatic hepatoma, gastrointestinal hemorrhage
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 24, 2004
- Citation
- 0431246
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