The Board denied the claim for service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death, finding that his terminal prostate and rectal cancers were not caused by exposure to herbicides during service.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not establish herbicide exposure in Vietnam or Thailand, nor was there any medical opinion linking the cancer diagnoses to service.
- Claimed conditions
- Carcinoma of the rectum, unknown cell type, Adenocarcinoma of the prostate
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 9, 2017
- Citation
- 1700534
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