The Board has determined that the evidence is at least in equipoise and therefore, service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death due to exposure to contaminated drinking water at Camp Lejeune is granted.
The deciding factor: The evidence shows that the Veteran served at Camp Lejeune for more than six months during the period when the water was contaminated. Thereafter, there is no post-service occupational exposures or other risk factors for renal cancer. The appellant submitted numerous scientific studies suggesting a link between TCE exposure and the development of renal cancer.
- Claimed conditions
- metastatic renal cell cancer
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- Camp Lejeune water
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 9, 2016
- Citation
- 1618465
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