The Board denied service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death and DIC benefits because the evidence did not show that the Veteran's liver cancer was related to his service or herbicide exposure.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence did not establish a causal relationship between the Veteran's liver cancer and his service, including herbicide exposure.
- Claimed conditions
- metastatic cancer of the liver
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 30, 2025
- Citation
- A25008344
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,162 · Granted: 21% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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