The Board has determined that the veteran's death is not attributable to disability from a disease or injury incurred or aggravated in service, and specifically denied service connection for the cause of his death due to prostate cancer.
The deciding factor: VA medical opinion indicated that the veteran's fatal prostate cancer was not caused by exposure to ionizing radiation during service.
- Claimed conditions
- metastatic prostate cancer
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 7, 2006
- Citation
- 0627917
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- Granted
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