The Veteran's renal carcinoma was not incurred in service and is not presumed to have been incurred. The Board found no link between the condition and a service-connected disability.
The deciding factor: There is no medical evidence linking the Veteran's renal carcinoma to his service or any service-connected disability.
- Claimed conditions
- Renal carcinoma
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 14, 2020
- Citation
- 20033674
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