Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for anemia, joint disability, and anal cancer to obtain additional evidence.
The deciding factor: The VA opinions provided are inadequate due to failure to address potential theories of entitlement and lack of proper foundation for negative inferences from the absence of evidence.
- Claimed conditions
- anemia, disability of the joints (fibromyalgia, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis), anal cancer
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 3, 2025
- Citation
- 25001562
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