The Board granted service connection for skin cancer, to include as due to Agent Orange exposure, and scars of the head, face, neck, and body as secondary to skin cancer.
The deciding factor: The probative evidence more likely shows that the Veteran's skin cancer is related to his in-service herbicide exposure based on the competent evidence of record establishing a link between the Veteran's skin cancer and his exposure to herbicide agents while serving in Vietnam. The scars are also found to be proximately due to or the result of the service-connected skin cancer.
- Claimed conditions
- skin cancer, scars of the head, face, neck, and body
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 4, 2025
- Citation
- A25009860
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