The Veteran's cause of death is service connected due to his presumptive exposure to herbicides during service, leading to lung cancer, prostate cancer, and coronary heart disease.
The deciding factor: Service connection was established based on the Veteran's presumed in-service exposure to herbicides, which led to the development of service-connected conditions that contributed to his death.
- Claimed conditions
- metastatic bronchogenic carcinoma, metastatic adenocarcinoma of the prostate, coronary heart disease
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- Gulf War
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 27, 2014
- Citation
- 1403483
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- Dismissed
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- Denied
The Board denied service connection for coronary heart disease and diabetes mellitus type II as a result of exposure to herbicide agents, finding no evidence of such exposure during the Veteran's service.
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