The Veteran's prostate cancer metastasized to his bones, and the Board is remanding for further development to determine if this bone cancer is related to his service-connected prostate cancer.
The deciding factor: The evidence does not clearly establish whether the bone cancer originated from the prostate cancer or a separate condition.
- Claimed conditions
- left distal ureter-renal cancer, bone cancer
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 17, 2019
- Citation
- 19194553
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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
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