The Board has determined that the Veteran's neck cancer, with residuals is related to his military service and grants service connection for this condition.
The deciding factor: The evidence is in equipoise as to whether the Veteran’s neck cancer was a secondary manifestation of a primary tumor somewhere in the throat, which arose due to herbicide exposure during service.
- Claimed conditions
- right neck squamous cell carcinoma, unknown primary, chronic laryngitis, incomplete organic aphonia, residuals of chronic jaw infection, loss of teeth, memory loss, anxiety
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 3, 2018
- Citation
- 18115882
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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