The Veteran's service connection claim for throat cancer is granted. The left wrist arthritis is found to have its onset during service and is therefore service-connected.
The deciding factor: Degenerative arthritis of the left wrist had its onset during service, meeting the criteria for direct service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- Throat Cancer, Degenerative Arthritis of the Left Wrist
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 6, 2012
- Citation
- 1230561
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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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