The Veteran's Non-Hodgkin’s B-cell lymphoma is presumed to be due to herbicide exposure, but the service connection is remanded for further verification of such exposure.
The deciding factor: Further development is needed to verify if the Veteran was exposed to herbicides through contaminated ship equipment while stationed on the USS Vesole from August to October 1968.
- Claimed conditions
- Non-Hodgkin’s B-cell lymphoma
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 2, 2018
- Citation
- 18123114
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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.
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