The Board finds that the Veteran's death was not caused by a service-connected condition, and thus, denied the claim for service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death.
The deciding factor: There is no evidence showing that COPD or any other service-connected disability contributed to the Veteran's death. The competent medical opinion does not support a finding that COPD was incurred during service.
- Claimed conditions
- Metastatic colon cancer
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 18, 2010
- Citation
- 1018494
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What this means for you
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