The Board has determined that new and material evidence has been submitted to reopen the claim of entitlement to service-connected death benefits. The appellant's assertion is that her husband's brain cancers may have been caused by his exposure to Agent Orange during service.
The deciding factor: A private medical opinion indicates there is a greater than 50 percent probability the Veteran's in-service headache was a manifestation of his subsequently diagnosed brain cancer.
- Claimed conditions
- intracranial hypertension, oligodendroglioma, astrocytoma
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 21, 2016
- Citation
- 1629092
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