The Board has denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for a throat condition, nose condition, and breathing condition as secondary to his service-connected throat cancer. The Veteran does not have diagnosed conditions of the throat, nose, or breathing that meet the criteria for service connection.
The deciding factor: There is no evidence of current disabilities with respect to these claimed conditions of a throat, nose, and breathing.
- Claimed conditions
- Throat Condition, Nose Condition, Breathing Condition
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 21, 2022
- Citation
- 22016329
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