The veteran's claims for service connection for his right kidney cancer, spleen and adrenal gland conditions are being remanded due to the need for a VA examination.
The deciding factor: VA needs to determine if the veteran's current conditions are related to his presumed exposure to Agent Orange during his Vietnam service.
- Claimed conditions
- clear cell carcinoma, right kidney, status post splenectomy, status post adrenalectomy
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 7, 2005
- Citation
- 0518440
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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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Veteran's claims for service connection for sickle beta-thalassemia, status post splenectomy, and status post cholecystectomy were granted. The effective dates are set at the date of receipt of her application to reopen (August 25, 2009 for sickle beta-thalassemia, August 10, 2010 for status post splenectomy, and August 10, 2010 for status post cholecystectomy).
- Denied
The Board found no evidence linking the veteran's clear cell carcinoma of the right kidney, metastatic to the left adrenal gland, to herbicide exposure during service. The preponderance of the evidence is against a nexus between any current diagnoses and service connection.
- Granted
The Board has determined that the Veteran's headaches are at least as likely as not caused by his service-connected traumatic brain injury, and thus grants service connection for this condition.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claims for service connection for hypertension and peripheral neuropathy of the bilateral upper and lower extremities due to insufficient medical opinions regarding their etiology.
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