The Board is remanding the case to obtain additional medical records and determine if service connection for the cause of the veteran's death should be granted.
The deciding factor: Additional evidence, including terminal hospitalization records and treatment records from private doctors, needs to be obtained before a decision can be made on whether service connection for the cause of the veteran's death is warranted.
- Claimed conditions
- Chronic kidney disease, Prostate cancer
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 28, 2005
- Citation
- 0502137
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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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