The Board denied the veteran's claim for service connection for retroperitoneal carcinoma, finding no current diagnosis of the condition and insufficient evidence linking it to herbicide exposure during service.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not support a current diagnosis or link between the claimed in-service exposure and the absence of any current disability.
- Claimed conditions
- retroperitoneal carcinoma
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 23, 2025
- Citation
- A25110394
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Decisions by this judge: 793 · Granted: 28% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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