The Board has determined that the evidence is at least in equipoise regarding whether the Veteran's ovarian cancer was related to her military service, and thus grants the claim for service connection on substitution grounds.
The deciding factor: The preponderance of the evidence supports a finding that the Veteran's ovarian cancer may have been related to her military service due to non-specific symptoms she experienced during active duty.
- Claimed conditions
- ovarian cancer
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 26, 2019
- Citation
- 19114043
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Decisions by this judge: 1,515 · Granted: 20% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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