The Board remands the issues of entitlement to service connection for kidney (renal) cancer, liver cancer, and breast cancer due to non-compliance with prior remand directives.
The deciding factor: Non-compliance with prior remand directives requires another remand to verify dates of ACDUTRA and obtain an addendum opinion regarding nexus between the Veteran's cancers and reported exposures.
- Claimed conditions
- kidney (renal) cancer, liver cancer, breast cancer
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 8, 2025
- Citation
- 25006288
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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- Denied
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- Partly granted
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- Granted
The Board grants an earlier effective date of March 24, 2023, for the awards of service connection for lung cancer, kidney cancer, and liver cancer.
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