The Board found that the veteran's fatal lung cancer was not proximately due to or the result of a condition incurred or aggravated during service, including inservice radiation exposure at Hiroshima or Nagasaki and inservice asbestos exposure. The claim is denied.
The deciding factor: There was no evidence showing the veteran was within 10 miles of Hiroshima or Nagasaki in the course of his military duties, nor did he have any duties such as those listed in VA regulations that would have brought him to within 10 miles of either city. The Board also found there was no applicable presumption of inservice exposure to ionizing radiation.
- Claimed conditions
- Carcinoma of the lung
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 12, 2006
- Citation
- 0614081
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