The Board has remanded the claims for service connection for the cause of the Veteran’s death, entitlement to a death pension, and entitlement to burial benefits greater than $300.00 due to incomplete information and need for further medical opinion.
The deciding factor: Further action is needed to obtain additional evidence and provide a VA medical opinion regarding the relationship between the Veteran's fatal metastatic pancreatic cancer and his exposure to herbicides in service.
- Claimed conditions
- metastatic pancreatic cancer
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 24, 2019
- Citation
- 19149239
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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for the cause of his death, finding no causal link between his military service and his pancreatic cancer. The Board also found that diabetes mellitus, type II did not cause or aggravate the pancreatic cancer.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's death is remanded for further review of his service-connected conditions and potential Agent Orange exposure. The cause of death, metastatic pancreatic cancer, may be related to his service-connected ischemic heart disease or to Agent Orange exposure.
- Denied
The Veteran's death from metastatic pancreatic cancer is not related to his presumed exposure to toxic water at Camp Lejeune or otherwise related to his active duty service.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claim for service connection for cause of death and denied his claim for dependents' educational assistance (DEA). The cause of death was attributed to metastatic pancreatic cancer, which is not presumed to be related to military service or exposure to herbicides.
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