The Board denied reopening the claim for service connection for cause of death due to lack of new and material evidence, concluding that there is no medical evidence linking lymphoma or hepatic failure to service.
The deciding factor: No new and material evidence was submitted to support a claim of service connection for the Veteran's cause of death.
- Claimed conditions
- large cell lymphoma, acute hepatic failure
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 8, 2010
- Citation
- 1021191
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Granted
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