The Board has decided to remand the case due to insufficient medical records and need for further opinion regarding the nature of the Veteran's lung nodule and its relation to his service-connected kidney cancer.
The deciding factor: Further medical opinions are needed to determine if the pulmonary nodule is a metastasis of the Veteran’s service-connected kidney cancer or an independent condition.
- Claimed conditions
- Pulmonary nodule, Kidney cancer (left renal cell carcinoma)
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 1, 2019
- Citation
- 19115549
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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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