The Board finds that the Veteran's Hodgkin's disease is likely related to his active service, and grants service connection for this condition.
The deciding factor: The Veteran presented credible lay assertions of continuity of symptomatology and a diagnosis of Hodgkin's disease shortly after service. The medical evidence supports a link between the Veteran's in-service exposure and his current condition.
- Claimed conditions
- Hodgkin's disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 29, 2010
- Citation
- 1024305
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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