The Board denied the appellant's claim for service connection for the cause of her husband's death, attributing it to a non-service-connected condition and not related to exposure to Agent Orange.
The deciding factor: The terminal causes of the veteran's death were unrelated to his military service or any service-connected conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- metastatic colorectal carcinoma, acute cholangitis
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 24, 2005
- Citation
- 0508780
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- Denied
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- Granted
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