The Board has determined that the Veteran's claimed conditions are not related to his active service and have denied all of his claims for service connection.
The deciding factor: There is no evidence linking the Veteran's current conditions to his active service, including a lack of in-service treatment records or symptoms, and post-service medical records do not indicate any onset during service. The presumptive provisions for exposure to herbicides are also not applicable as renal cancer is not one of those diseases.
- Claimed conditions
- Renal cancer, Disability of the spine, Peripheral neuropathy of the lower extremities, Skin disability (fungal condition)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 23, 2009
- Citation
- 0927467
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Veteran's claim for service connection for renal cancer was granted in the November 2024 rating decision, with a 100% disability rating effective January 25, 2023.
- Partly granted
The Veteran was granted an award of special monthly compensation (SMC) based on his service-connected paranoid schizophrenia and renal cancer, but the appeal for a higher level of SMC due to the need for a higher level of care in addition to regular aid and attendance was denied.
- Partly granted
The appeal for service connection for bilateral hearing loss was denied, while the appeals for diabetes mellitus, type II, and peripheral neuropathy of both upper and lower extremities were remanded.
- Granted
The Veteran's service connection claims for peripheral neuropathy of the upper and lower extremities, as well as skin cancer, are granted. The claim for skin cancer is remanded due to a lack of opinion on direct service connection.
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