The Veteran's death was due to multiple cancers, and the Board found no evidence of service connection for these conditions or exposure to Agent Orange. Therefore, the claim for service connection for cause of death is denied.
The deciding factor: There was no credible evidence supporting the Veteran's claimed in-service exposure to Agent Orange and his cancer diagnoses were not linked to any service-connected condition or presumed exposure.
- Claimed conditions
- End stage metastatic prostate cancer, Liver cancer, Bone cancer, Peritoneum cancer, Lung metastasis
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 14, 2024
- Citation
- 24007711
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