The Board found that the veteran's metastatic non-small cell carcinoma was not related to service or exposure to Agent Orange, and thus denied the claim for service connection for cause of death.
The deciding factor: The cancer that caused the veteran's death had already metastasized by the time he died, and there is no evidence linking it to his military service or exposure to herbicides.
- Claimed conditions
- metastatic non-small cell carcinoma
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 17, 2008
- Citation
- 0835638
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