The Board denied the claim of service connection for the cause of the veteran's death due to a cancer of the throat, finding no evidence that it was related to service or any presumptive conditions.
The deciding factor: There is no factual basis to relate the veteran's fatal cancer directly to service or to service by the one-year presumption for cancer.
- Claimed conditions
- cancer of the throat
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 26, 2006
- Citation
- 0639836
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What this means for you
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