The Board denied reopening the claim for service connection for carcinoma of the tongue as due to Agent Orange exposure and denied entitlement to service connection for hypertension and hypertensive heart disease, including as secondary to service-connected diabetes mellitus and psychiatric disorder.
The deciding factor: No new and material evidence was received to reopen the claim for service connection for carcinoma of the tongue as due to Agent Orange exposure.
- Claimed conditions
- carcinoma of the tongue
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 10, 2004
- Citation
- 0432787
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