The Board has determined that new and material evidence has not been received to reopen the Veteran's claims for service connection for COPD and metastatic squamous cell carcinoma left neck/parotid, as the evidence does not relate to an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate these claims.
The deciding factor: The submitted evidence is cumulative of previous records and does not provide a link between the claimed conditions and active military service or exposure to mustard gas or Lewisite.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), metastatic squamous cell carcinoma left neck/parotid
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 13, 2010
- Citation
- 1013957
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