The Board has determined that new and material evidence has not been received to reopen the appellant's claim of entitlement to service connection for the Veteran's cause of death. The evidence submitted since the October 1999 rating decision is cumulative or does not relate to an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate the claim.
The deciding factor: The newly submitted evidence, including service treatment records and medical records from Richmond VAMC, does not provide evidence that supports a finding that the Veteran's causes of death were due to a service-connected disability or related to his military service.
- Claimed conditions
- multiple organ system failure, bladder cancer, prostate cancer with gastrointestinal bleeding, renal and liver failure, fungemia
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 28, 2017
- Citation
- 1760657
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