The Board denied the application to reopen the claim of service connection for cause of death due to lack of new and material evidence.
The deciding factor: No new and material evidence was submitted that could establish an in-service incurrence or a nexus between the Veteran's cause of death and his service.
- Claimed conditions
- carcinoma
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 13, 2020
- Citation
- 20066067
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Decisions by this judge: 2,480 · Granted: 26% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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