The Board has remanded the cases of service connection for skin cancer on head and a compensable rating for left ear drum rupture due to insufficient medical opinions regarding the etiology of these conditions.
The deciding factor: The VA examiners did not provide sufficient rationale or evidence to support their conclusions, as required by the March 2021 remand directive.
- Claimed conditions
- skin cancer on head, left ear drum rupture
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 4, 2022
- Citation
- 22026480
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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.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for service connection for skin cancer on the head to obtain an adequate medical opinion regarding its etiology, considering both herbicide exposure and other potential exposures during the Veteran's service.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to insufficient medical opinion regarding whether the Veteran's vertigo is caused by his service-connected left ear drum rupture. The case will be returned for further development.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided that the VA examination was insufficient to determine if the Veteran's left ear conditions, including effluent discharge and cerumen buildup, are related to his service-connected left ear drum rupture. The case is being remanded for a new examination.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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