? For Berta Re: Lejeune Water

[Riffjunkie]

In response to my last post...

Berta,

Here's the thing. Normally, kidney tumors that are cancer (and most of them are) occur in only one kidney. Art had tumors in BOTH kidneys. When they occur in both, it is either genetic or environmental. The doctors at the Cleveland Clinic suspected he had Birt-Hogg Dube Syndrome, which is a rare genetic disease. They sent him for thorough testing at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD. After two lengthy visits there over a span of two years, and DNA testing of his tumors, they RULED out a genetic component. We have all the paperwork.

What does BVA stand for?

Thank you!!!

[Berta]

Although they ruled out genetic cause- the VA would still need association to the specific carcigenics or contaminants in the Le Jeune water-

still this sounds like the most probative claim I have seen yet on the Le Jeune situation-

BVA -Board of Veterans Appeals in Washington DC. They have web site and all BVA decisions are posted there.