The Board has granted service connection for CAD and remanded the issues of service connection for heart problems, arthritis and pain in the lumbar and thoracic spine, a disability of the spine, thyroid disability (papillary thyroid micro carcinoma), renal cell carcinoma with radical right nephrectomy, and right lung cancer.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's CAD is presumed related to his conceded Agent Orange exposure in Vietnam.
- Claimed conditions
- Arthritis and pain in the lumbar and thoracic spine, Heart problems
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 27, 2019
- Citation
- 19166494
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