The Board has granted the Appellant's claim to reopen a claim for service connection for the cause of the Veteran’s death, finding that new and material evidence had been received. Service connection is also granted based on presumed exposure to Agent Orange during service in Vietnam.
The deciding factor: The medical opinion supports a link between the Veteran's brain cancer and his presumed exposure to Agent Orange during service in Vietnam.
- Claimed conditions
- Carcinoma of the brain
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 6, 2019
- Citation
- 19160951
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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