The Board has reopened the veteran's claim for service connection for a right shoulder and right arm disability due to new evidence showing that his current condition is related to his service-connected malignant melanoma. Service connection is granted.
The deciding factor: The new medical evidence shows that the veteran's current right shoulder and right arm disability is caused by his service-connected malignant melanoma, postoperative, right cheek.
- Claimed conditions
- loss in Muscle Group I, partial absence of Muscle Group III, partial absence of Muscle Group IV, partial absence of Muscle Group XXI, atrophy of the biceps of Muscle Group V, degenerative arthritis of the right shoulder
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 22, 2008
- Citation
- 0836177
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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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