The Board has ordered a remand to determine if the Veteran was exposed to Agent Orange in Okinawa, Japan and to obtain his terminal hospital records. The appeal is pending until further notice.
The deciding factor: The VA needs to verify the Veteran's exposure to herbicides in Okinawa as alleged by the appellant.
- Claimed conditions
- upper thoracic spinal cord compression due to lung cancer
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 15, 2015
- Citation
- 1544067
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What this means for you
A remand sends an issue back for more development, often a new examination or missing records. It does not award the benefit or decide the final outcome. The original decision explains the additional work ordered.
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