The Board has granted service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death, as well as for acute myelocytic leukemia and a chronic heart condition due to exposure to herbicides. The issues regarding entitlement to a compensable disability rating for actinic keratosis have been remanded.
The deciding factor: Reasons provided by the Board include medical opinions linking the cause of death, acute myelocytic leukemia, and chronic heart condition to service-connected conditions and exposure to herbicides in Vietnam.
- Claimed conditions
- Acute Myelocytic Leukemia, Chronic Heart Condition
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 20, 2014
- Citation
- 1451534
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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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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board has determined that the grant of service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death was not based on clear and unmistakable error (CUE), thus the severance of service connection is improper.
- Granted
The Board has granted service connection for acute myelocytic leukemia due to exposure to Agent Orange during service and also grants the cause of death claim.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claims for service connection for Acute Myelocytic Leukemia and Myelofibrosis due to insufficient medical opinion regarding presumed exposure to Agent Orange.
- Granted
The Veteran's service connection claim for Acute Myelocytic Leukemia, claimed as due to exposure to contaminated water at Camp Lejeune, is granted under the presumption of service connection.
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