The Board granted entitlement to dependency and indemnity compensation (DIC) based upon service connection for the Veteran's cause of death, specifically head and neck cancer, which was found to be causally related to his herbicide exposure during service in Vietnam.
The deciding factor: The private medical opinions provided by the Veteran’s treating physician strongly supported a causal relationship between the Veteran's head and neck cancer and his presumed Agent Orange exposure during service, leading to the grant of service connection for cause of death.
- Claimed conditions
- head and neck cancer
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 5, 2021
- Citation
- 21061867
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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