The Board has determined that the Veteran's skin cancer of the face and torso were not incurred or aggravated by service, including exposure to herbicides. The preponderance of evidence is against a grant of service connection for these conditions.
The deciding factor: The VA medical opinion found no link between the Veteran's current skin cancer diagnoses and his active service, including exposure to herbicides.
- Claimed conditions
- skin cancer of the face, skin cancer of the torso
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 2, 2018
- Citation
- 1819839
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