The Board has ordered additional development to determine if the veteran's service-connected disabilities contributed to his death, and whether any disability of service origin caused or significantly impacted upon his death.
The deciding factor: The decision is remanded due to the need for further evidence regarding the cause of the veteran's death and the relationship between his service-connected conditions and his death.
- Claimed conditions
- metastatic renal cell carcinoma
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 20, 2001
- Citation
- 0116740
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What this means for you
A remand is not a loss. The Board sent the case back for more development — often a new exam or missing records — before making a final decision. Many remands later end in a grant, and the decision spells out exactly what the Board wanted to see.
What you can do next
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