Granted
The Board granted service connection for respiratory cancer as secondary to the Veteran's already service-connected throat cancer.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's respiratory cancer is found to be a result of his service-connected throat cancer, meeting the criteria for secondary service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- respiratory cancer
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- October 21, 2025
- Citation
- A25090698
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