The VA denied the appellant's claim for service connection for the cause of her husband's death, finding no evidence linking his conditions to his military service or exposure to chemical dioxins.
The deciding factor: No medical evidence established a nexus between the veteran's conditions and his military service or exposure to Agent Orange.
- Claimed conditions
- Carcinoma bladder, kidney, ureter metastatic to the liver
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 12, 2008
- Citation
- 0804964
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