The Veteran's cause of death is being remanded due to insufficient evidence regarding the relationship between his service-connected conditions and his death.
The deciding factor: The Board notes that there is no direct evidence linking the Veteran’s in-service respiratory complaints or his service-connected recurrent upper respiratory infections with allergic rhinitis to his cause of death, lung cancer with metastatic disease to the brain. The remand is necessary to obtain medical opinions on these issues.
- Claimed conditions
- lung cancer with metastatic disease to the brain, recurrent upper respiratory infections with allergic rhinitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 27, 2019
- Citation
- 19123227
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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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