The Board has determined that the Veteran's skin cancer is related to his service, and thus grants service connection for this condition. The issue of infertility will be remanded as there are insufficient medical opinions regarding its relationship to service.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner opined that infertility was not caused by or aggravated by a service-connected disability, but the opinion is inadequate for rating purposes due to lack of rationale and consideration of the Veteran's history of infertility during service.
- Claimed conditions
- skin cancer, infertility
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 7, 2018
- Citation
- 1814031
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- Denied
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- Denied
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- Granted
The Veteran's infertility, claimed as azoospermia, is related to his military service and the Board has granted entitlement to service connection for this condition.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's appeal for service connection for skin cancer has been dismissed because the Veteran died during the pendency of the appeal.
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