The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for service connection for skin cancer, prostate condition, and urinary dysfunction due to incomplete records and insufficient medical opinions.
The deciding factor: Incomplete or insufficient medical opinions are required to determine the cause of the Veteran’s conditions and their relationship to military service.
- Claimed conditions
- skin cancer, prostate condition, urinary dysfunction
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 22, 2019
- Citation
- 19188350
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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.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Partly granted
The appeal for service connection for skin cancer was dismissed due to untimeliness, while the claim for squamous cell carcinoma was granted.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claim for service connection for a prostate condition, including prostate cancer, as there was no evidence of an in-service injury or disease and no nexus to service.
- Dismissed
The appeal was dismissed due to the Veteran's death during the pendency of the claims.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for hypertension, finding that the evidence is at least in approximate balance that the Veteran's hypertension began during active service.
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