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Fermin Cayco, et al. vs. Employees' Compensation Commission, et al.

FERMIN CAYCO, ELDA CAYCO, JEMUELLE CAYCO, EDSEL CAYCO, JOIDA CAYCO, and EDITH CAYCO, petitioners, vs. EMPLOYEES' COMPENSATION COMMISSION and GOVERNMENT SERVICE INSURANCE SYSTEM (Dept. of Education & Culture), respondents.

G.R. No. L-49755 | 1980-08-21

D E C I S I O N


BARREDO, J.:

Petition for review of the decision of the Employees' Compensation Commission denying petitioners' claim for compensation under the Workmen's Compensation Act for the death of Adoracion Cayco, a classroom teacher at the Isabelo delos Santos Elementary School in Tondo, Manila, since 1945, which occurred in 1978 as a result of breast cancer which first showed up in 1972.

The sole issue for Us to determine, in view of the fact admitted in the comment of the respondent Commission that the death of Mrs. Cayco was caused by "infiltrating duct carcinoma of the breast with metastases" which may commonly be referred...