The Board denied the appellant's claim of service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death due to lack of new and material evidence, as well as the absence of a presumptive link between Agent Orange exposure and the Veteran's cancer.
The deciding factor: No new and material evidence was submitted to reopen the claim, and there is no presumption linking Agent Orange exposure to the Veteran's tongue cancer.
- Claimed conditions
- metastatic squamous cell cancer of the lung, recurrent head, neck, tongue and lung cancers
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 8, 2010
- Citation
- 1008763
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What this means for you
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