The Veteran's claim for an earlier effective date for the grant of service connection for medullary carcinoma of the thyroid is denied. The effective date will be set at March 23, 2007, as this was when the condition was first diagnosed and claimed.
The deciding factor: The requirements for service connection were not met during service but within the first year after separation from active duty, making the effective date March 23, 2007.
- Claimed conditions
- medullary carcinoma of the thyroid
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 18, 2011
- Citation
- 1130625
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