The Veteran's service-connected ischemic heart disease is found to have contributed substantially or materially to his death from progressive lung metastases due to kidney cancer. The Board grants service connection for the cause of the Veteran’s death.
The deciding factor: Service-connected ischemic heart disease was found to have contributed substantially or materially to the Veteran's death from progressive lung metastases due to kidney cancer.
- Claimed conditions
- Ischemic heart disease, Renal cell carcinoma
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- October 12, 2018
- Citation
- 18142000
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