The Board denied the Veteran's claim to reopen his service connection for a brain tumor, finding that new and material evidence had not been submitted. The Veteran's meningioma was not shown in service or within one year after service, and there was no evidence showing a causal relationship between any microwave exposure during service to the subsequent development of meningioma.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the new evidence did not relate to an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate the claim for service connection and did not raise a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim.
- Claimed conditions
- meningioma
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 24, 2010
- Citation
- 1023655
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