The Veteran's lung disorder is found to be proximately due to or the result of his service-connected squamous cell carcinoma, and granted service connection for this condition.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner opined that it was most likely that the Agent Orange exposure was a factor in any breathing difficulty the Veteran was experiencing.
- Claimed conditions
- Lung Disorder, Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Left Base of Tongue
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 9, 2012
- Citation
- 1205078
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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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