The Board has remanded the case for further development, including obtaining a medical opinion to determine if the veteran's service-connected prostate cancer aggravated his fatal bladder cancer.
The deciding factor: The Board requested an opinion from an oncologist to assess whether the veteran's service-connected prostate cancer aggravated his fatal bladder cancer.
- Claimed conditions
- squamous cell bladder cancer
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 13, 2007
- Citation
- 0704484
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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.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to insufficient medical opinions regarding the cause of death and whether service-connected conditions contributed to it. The Veteran died from bladder cancer, but there is uncertainty about the type of cancer and whether his pre-existing conditions played a role.
- Remanded (sent back)
The veteran's death was attributed to squamous cell bladder cancer, but the Board found insufficient evidence to determine if this cancer began during service or was related to exposure to Agent Orange. The primary site of the fatal cancer and whether it was aggravated by a pre-existing condition need further clarification.
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