The Board denied service connection for the Veteran's cause of death, finding that metastatic prostate cancer was the primary cause and there was no evidence linking it to service. The appeal is dismissed.
The deciding factor: The August 2014 rating decision found that the cause of death (metastatic prostate cancer) was not related to service-connected conditions or military exposure, thus denying service connection for cause of death.
- Claimed conditions
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder with Depression, Metastatic Prostate Cancer
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 28, 2019
- Citation
- 19106618
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