The Board has remanded the case for further development and opinion regarding service connection for primary hypogonadism, including as due to service-connected prostate cancer or herbicide exposure.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner is required to provide opinions on whether the Veteran's hypogonadism is related to his in-service diagnoses of infertility, oligospermia, residual bilateral epididymitis, and prostatitis, as well as his service-connected prostate cancer, and if it is due to herbicide exposure.
- Claimed conditions
- primary hypogonadism
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 20, 2019
- Citation
- 19139094
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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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- Granted
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- Denied
The Board has determined that the Veteran's primary hypogonadism is not attributable to his active duty service, including exposure to herbicides. As such, the claim for service connection for primary hypogonadism is denied.
- Denied
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