The Board has remanded the cases for further development due to insufficient medical evidence and incomplete records. The Appellant is requested to provide any available information regarding her husband's psychological functioning, including traumatic events experienced during service.
The deciding factor: Further development of the record is necessary to determine if there are sufficient medical opinions or other evidence to support a claim for service connection for an acquired psychological disorder and metastatic cancer.
- Claimed conditions
- Acquired psychological disorder, Metastatic cancer (to include metastatic adenocarcinoma of unknown primary site)
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 27, 2019
- Citation
- 19123236
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Decisions by this judge: 1,506 · Granted: 43% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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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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