The Board denied service connection for disabilities resulting from exposure to Agent Orange, finding no evidence of such conditions in the veteran's medical records.
The deciding factor: There is no competent medical evidence showing that the veteran has any disability related to exposure to Agent Orange.
- Claimed conditions
- sarcoma, gastrointestinal (GI) problems
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- July 31, 2006
- Citation
- 0622849
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Decisions by this judge: 3,319 · Granted: 25% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board found that new and relevant evidence had not been received to support the veteran's claims for service connection for melanoma, sarcoma, basal cell carcinoma, COPD, and sinusitis.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied the claim for Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC) under 38 U.S.C. § 1318, as the Veteran was not rated continuously totally disabled for at least ten years immediately preceding his death.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied service connection for gastrointestinal problems as the evidence did not support a current disability and there was no link to in-service events.
- Whole decision: Partly granted
The veteran's claim for service connection for hypertension was granted due to presumed exposure to herbicide agents during service in Vietnam under the PACT Act. The claim for sarcoma was remanded for further evaluation.
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