The Board has determined that additional medical examination is necessary to adjudicate the claims for service connection of nicotine addiction and carcinoma of the tongue. The case is REMANDED for further development.
The deciding factor: Medical examination is necessary at this point to determine whether appellant currently has a carcinoma and the etiology of that carcinoma (particularly whether the carcinoma, if any, is consequent to Agent Orange exposure, by smoking or other activity during service, or to continued smoking after discharge from service).
- Claimed conditions
- carcinoma of the tongue, nicotine addiction
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 13, 2005
- Citation
- 0500970
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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.
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