The Board denied service connection for the cause of the veteran's death due to a lack of evidence linking his in-service renal calculus and his fatal cancer.
The deciding factor: There was no evidence of a relationship between the veteran's in-service renal calculus and the cause of his death.
- Claimed conditions
- renal cell cancer
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 31, 2006
- Citation
- 0633689
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