The Board has remanded the case for further development due to insufficient medical opinion regarding whether the Veteran's bladder-ureter cancer is related to herbicide agent exposure during service.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner did not provide sufficient rationale as to why the risk factor of exposure to herbicide agents during service does not support a medical link between exposure and the Veteran’s bladder-ureter cancer, or is outweighed by other risk factors for bladder-ureter cancer.
- Claimed conditions
- Bladder-ureter cancer
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- June 3, 2019
- Citation
- 19142520
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Decisions by this judge: 2,200 · Granted: 43% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
A remand sends an issue back for more development, often a new examination or missing records. It does not award the benefit or decide the final outcome. The original decision explains the additional work ordered.
What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's bladder-ureter cancer is related to herbicide agent exposure during service, and the claim for service connection is granted.,The cause of the Veteran's death (gastrointestinal hemorrhage with metastatic bladder carcinoma and acute renal failure) is considered secondary to his bladder-ureter cancer.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's bladder-ureter cancer is remanded for a medical opinion regarding its etiology, and the cause of death claim is also remanded due to lack of service connection evidence.
- Whole decision: Dismissed
The Veteran's claim for an earlier effective date for diabetes mellitus type II with erectile dysfunction was denied as the evidence did not show that he had been diagnosed and manifested to at least a 10 percent disability rating on or prior to May 8, 2001.
- Whole decision: Granted
Service connection for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is granted. The appeal as to the issue of entitlement to service connection for erectile dysfunction is dismissed.
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