The Board denied the petitions to reopen claims for service connection for chronic residuals of ovarian cancer and SMC based on the anatomical loss of a creative organ, finding that new and material evidence was not submitted.
The deciding factor: The new evidence did not relate to an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate the claim for service connection for chronic residuals of ovarian cancer or her claim for SMC based on the anatomical loss of a creative organ.
- Claimed conditions
- Ovarian cancer, Loss of use of a creative organ
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 22, 2021
- Citation
- 21065001
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- Granted
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