The Board denied reopening the Veteran's claim of service connection for skin cancer and benign growths, claimed as a result of exposure to herbicides. The evidence received since the June 2009 decision is not new and material.
The deciding factor: The evidence does not raise a reasonable possibility of substantiating the issue of entitlement to service connection for skin cancer and benign growths.
- Claimed conditions
- skin cancer (basal cell carcinoma and malignant melanoma), benign growths
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 16, 2014
- Citation
- 1441299
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