The Veteran's kidney cancer is granted service connection due to exposure to Agent Orange during his service in Korea.
The deciding factor: The Board found the evidence to be in equipoise on whether the Veteran’s in-service herbicide exposure caused kidney cancer, and granted service connection based on this finding.
- Claimed conditions
- renal cell carcinoma (kidney cancer)
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 22, 2019
- Citation
- 19165493
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What this means for you
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