The Board has determined that the Veteran's death was not caused by service-connected conditions, and thus service connection for cause of death is denied.
The deciding factor: There is no evidence linking the Veteran’s aspiration pneumonia or metastatic lung cancer to his military service.
- Claimed conditions
- Aspiration Pneumonia, Metastatic Small Cell Carcinoma of the Lung
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 28, 2012
- Citation
- 1229613
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- Granted
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