The Board has determined that the veteran's squamous cell cancer of the neck is presumed to have been incurred during active duty due to exposure to an herbicide agent, and thus service connection is granted.
The deciding factor: The expert medical opinion concluded that without proof of the primary source, it was at least as likely that the primary cancer was derived from lung tissue as head and neck tissue. Given this conclusion, the Board found in favor of granting service connection based on presumptive exposure to herbicide agents.
- Claimed conditions
- squamous cell cancer of the neck, metastasized from a primary cancer of the lung
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 9, 2007
- Citation
- 0735524
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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