The Veteran's thymus cancer is found to be etiologically related to exposure to non-ionizing radiation during active military service, and the claim for service connection is granted.
The deciding factor: A private physician provided a medical opinion that more likely than not, the proximate cause of the development of cancer of the thymus by the Veteran was adverse synergy between his concomitant exposure to radiation (reportedly ionizing and non-ionizing) and Agent Orange while in the Navy aboard the USS Coral Sea.
- Claimed conditions
- cancer of the thymus
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 18, 2018
- Citation
- 1803468
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