The Board found that the veteran's cause of death was not due to service or exposure to dioxin, and thus denied the claim for service connection.
The deciding factor: There is no competent evidence linking the veteran's cancer to dioxin exposure or his military service.
- Claimed conditions
- metastatic adeno carcinoma, adenocarcinoma of the adrenal glands
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 16, 2009
- Citation
- 0914149
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board found that the cause of death was not incurred in or aggravated by active service and may not be presumed to have been so incurred or aggravated. The Veteran's disabilities, including hypertension and coronary artery disease, were initially demonstrated years after service.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case for further development, including obtaining VA and private medical records from 1998 to 2007, and for a VA opinion regarding whether the cause of death is related to service or a service-connected disability.
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