The Board granted service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death on a presumptive basis due to exposure at Camp Lejeune, but denied direct service connection.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner concluded that the Veteran’s bladder cancer was likely due to smoking and not CLCW contamination based on medical literature and objective data. The private opinion did not provide specific rationale for linking CLCW contaminants to bladder cancer.
- Claimed conditions
- Transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- Camp Lejeune water
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 6, 2018
- Citation
- 18132035
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- Granted
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