The Board denied the claim of service connection for cause of death due to lack of evidence linking the Veteran's military service to his cancer diagnosis and subsequent death.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner found that there was no causal connection between the Veteran’s military service and his death from metastatic squamous cell cancer, as there were no findings of actual asbestos fiber inhalation.
- Claimed conditions
- metastatic squamous cell cancer, undetermined primary site
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 27, 2019
- Citation
- 19196485
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What this means for you
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