The Veteran's bilateral hearing loss and tinnitus are granted as service connected due to in-service acoustic trauma. The claim for breast cancer is remanded as there is insufficient evidence regarding the cause of the condition.,Service connection for breast cancer is being remanded because the evidence does not support a finding that the Veteran was exposed to ionizing radiation at McMurdo Station, Antarctica.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not provide sufficient information to determine if the Veteran's breast cancer was related to exposure to contaminated water at Camp Lejeune or to ionizing radiation at McMurdo Station.
- Claimed conditions
- {"condition_name":"Bilateral Hearing Loss"}, {"condition_name":"Tinnitus"}, {"condition_name":"Breast Cancer"}
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 31, 2019
- Citation
- 19196978
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