The Board found that the Veteran's death was not caused by a disability for which service connection had been established at the time of death or for which service connection should have been established, and denied the claims.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence did not show that the Veteran's service-connected intervertebral disc syndrome of the lumbar spine or psychoneurosis either contributed or were causally related to his death. The cause of death was listed as gastrointestinal bleeding due to cancer of the colon, severe dementia and cancer of the prostate.
- Claimed conditions
- gastrointestinal bleeding due to cancer of the colon, cancer of the colon, severe dementia, cancer of the prostate
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 12, 2009
- Citation
- 0909324
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