The Board of Veterans' Appeals denied service connection for the cause of the veteran's death due to lack of evidence linking his fatal cancer to his military service or any of his service-connected conditions.
The deciding factor: The medical records did not show a direct link between the veteran's service, any service-connected condition, and his fatal cancer.
- Claimed conditions
- anxiety reaction, noncompensable residuals of a gunshot wound of the right arm, amebic dysentery, functional dyspepsia
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 9, 2005
- Citation
- 0503413
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- Dismissed
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- Partly granted
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- Dismissed
The Board denied the Veteran's motions to reverse or revise prior rating decisions on grounds of clear and unmistakable error (CUE), finding no such errors in the March 1971 and August 2004 decisions.
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