The Board denied the appellant's claim of entitlement to service connection for the cause of her husband's death, finding that lung carcinoma was not present in service and is not shown to be etiologically related to service. The Board also noted that any claims received by VA after June 9, 1998 are subject to a statutory bar on service connection based on tobacco use during service.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not establish a direct relationship between the veteran's service and his death from lung carcinoma.
- Claimed conditions
- lung carcinoma
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 8, 2005
- Citation
- 0503097
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