The Board has granted the Veteran's petition to reopen his claim for service connection for recurrent bladder cancer, and a VA medical opinion is needed to determine if his bladder cancer is related to service exposure.
The deciding factor: A VA medical opinion is necessary to determine the etiology of the Veteran's recurrent bladder cancer given the conflicting information regarding smoking history.
- Claimed conditions
- recurrent bladder cancer
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 23, 2018
- Citation
- 1804099
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