Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for a supplemental medical opinion regarding whether the Veteran's service-connected prostate cancer and chronic congestive heart failure contributed to his death.
The deciding factor: A remand is necessary due to an incomplete pre-decisional duty to assist, specifically in obtaining a medical opinion addressing the cause of the Veteran's death.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic congestive heart failure, prostate cancer
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 6, 2025
- Citation
- A25010863
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