The Board has reopened the appellant's claim of entitlement to service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death due to new and material evidence, but finds that the Veteran's death was not caused by or related to any in-service event or disease, including herbicide exposure.
The deciding factor: There is no competent medical evidence linking the Veteran's renal cell carcinoma to his military service, including herbicide exposure.
- Claimed conditions
- diffusely metastatic renal cell carcinoma
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 23, 2011
- Citation
- 1111736
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What this means for you
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