The Board has remanded the case for further development due to incomplete compliance with previous instructions, including verification of herbicide exposure in Thailand.
The deciding factor: The VA Adjudication Procedure Manual requires specific steps when dealing with claims involving herbicide exposure outside Vietnam or the DMZ in Korea. These steps have not been followed in this case.
- Claimed conditions
- metastatic lung carcinoma, pulmonary emphysema
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 18, 2011
- Citation
- 1110900
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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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