Denied
The Board denied service connection for a recurrent respiratory disability to include right lung cancer, claimed as the result of herbicide agent exposure.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's lung cancer is a metastasis from colon cancer and not a primary cancer, and there is no evidence of a primary respiratory cancer that could be presumed due to herbicide exposure.
- Claimed conditions
- right lung cancer
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 28, 2025
- Citation
- 25002985
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