The appellant has withdrawn all claims of service connection for metastatic bone, liver, and prostate cancer on the basis of substitution.
The deciding factor: The appellant withdrew their appeal through her representative in writing.
- Claimed conditions
- metastatic bone cancer, metastatic liver cancer, metastatic prostate cancer
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 5, 2021
- Citation
- 21027374
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What this means for you
A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot. It says more about procedure than about whether a claim like this can win.
What you can do next
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