The Board finds that the Veteran's skin disorder, including skin cancer and recurrent malignant warts, was not incurred in or aggravated by his active duty service, nor is it shown to be secondary to a service-connected disability. Therefore, the claim for service connection is denied.
The deciding factor: VA medical opinions found no causal relationship between the Veteran's service-connected depression and/or hypothyroidism and his skin disorders (including skin cancer and recurrent malignant warts).
- Claimed conditions
- Skin cancer, Recurrent malignant warts
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 14, 2016
- Citation
- 1601720
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