The Veteran's renal cell carcinoma is found to be directly service connected due to exposure to Agent Orange during his service near the Korean DMZ.
The deciding factor: The medical opinions in favor of service connection outweigh the VA opinion that discounted the link between Agent Orange and the Veteran's kidney cancer.
- Claimed conditions
- renal cell carcinoma
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 26, 2020
- Citation
- A20015975
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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