The Board denied the claim for service connection for the cause of the veteran's death, finding that a service-connected disability did not play any role in causing or hastening his death.
The deciding factor: Service connection could not be established as there was no evidence linking the veteran's malignant hepatoma to service or any other condition.
- Claimed conditions
- malignant hepatoma
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 17, 2006
- Citation
- 0614436
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Decisions by this judge: 1,012 · Granted: 24% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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The Board has determined that the veteran's service-connected Type II diabetes mellitus played a material causal role in his death from liver cancer, and thus grants service connection for the cause of the veteran's death.
- Denied
The Board has determined that the veteran's service-connected left above knee amputation, osteomyelitis of the left lower extremity, and post-operative degenerative joint disease of the left knee did not cause or contribute to his death from malignant hepatoma. The VA oncologist concluded that the primary cause of malignant hepatoma was chronic hepatitis C or B with cirrhosis, unrelated to the veteran's service-connected disabilities.
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