Skin cancer decisions — 2025
426 indexed Board decisions in 2025.
Badges describe the whole decision, not the outcome for every condition listed. An appeal can grant one issue and deny or remand another. Check the original decision for each issue; these outcomes do not predict your claim.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)PACT Act · January 2025
The Board remanded the veteran's claims for service connection for skin cancer and a lumbar spine disorder. The veteran served on a diesel submarine and was exposed to solvents, fuels, other chemicals, and water off the shore of Vietnam.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)January 2025
The Board remanded the claim for service connection for melanoma because the VA did not provide a required medical examination.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)January 2025
The appeal for service connection of skin cancer is remanded. The Board needs more information to decide the case.
- Whole decision: DeniedJanuary 2025
The Board denied the veteran's claim for an initial noncompensable evaluation for service-connected residuals of malignant melanoma scar because the scar did not meet the criteria for a compensable rating.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)January 2025
The Board remanded the claim for service connection of a skin condition, including skin cancer. The Veteran will receive an examination to determine if the condition is related to his military service.
- Whole decision: Partly grantedPACT Act · January 2025
The veteran's claim for service connection for skin cancer (basal cell carcinoma of the neck) under the PACT Act is granted. The claim for service connection under a different theory is remanded.
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