The Veteran's appeal is being remanded due to her request for a Travel Board hearing. The case will be returned to the Board after the hearing.
The deciding factor: The Veteran requested a Travel Board hearing, and this action requires expeditious handling as per VA regulations.
- Claimed conditions
- breast cancer
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 11, 2010
- Citation
- 1009284
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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.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings and service connection, as well as remanded several other claims for further development.
- Dismissed
The Board dismissed the veteran's appeals for an earlier effective date prior to August 6, 2023, for tinnitus and for service connection for breast cancer due to untimely notices of disagreement and abandonment of claims respectively.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for breast cancer on a presumptive basis as a reproductive cancer, and also granted service connection for bone cancer as secondary to the now service-connected breast cancer.
- Dismissed
The Veteran withdrew her appeal for service connection for breast cancer, and the Board has no jurisdiction to review this matter.
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