The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims due to insufficient information and need for additional examination. The breast masses claim is related back to service, but the initial rating claim remains pending.
The deciding factor: Insufficient evidence regarding the etiology of the breast conditions and their relation to service.
- Claimed conditions
- breast masses, fibrocystic breast disease, mastodynia, bilateral mastectomy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 17, 2018
- Citation
- 18142512
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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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