The Board has determined that the evidence submitted since the December 1991 rating decision is not new and material, thus denying the reopening of the claim for service connection for the cause of the veteran's death.
The deciding factor: The evidence does not raise a reasonable probability of substantiating the claim for service connection for the cause of the veteran's death.
- Claimed conditions
- right lower lobe pneumonia, metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of left lung (to brain), left lung carcinoma
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 3, 2007
- Citation
- 0723986
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- Denied
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- Denied
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- Denied
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