Remanded (sent back)
The Board granted an effective date of January 5, 2015, for the grant of eligibility for Dependents' Educational Assistance under 38 USC chapter 35 (DEA), but remanded the claim for compensation under 38 U.S.C. § 1151 for renal cell carcinoma status post right nephrectomy and abdominal hernia residuals.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner's opinion did not explicitly address whether the development of RCC was a reasonably foreseeable outcome of monitoring the tumor upon initial discovery, which is necessary to determine if VA treatment caused an additional disability.
- Claimed conditions
- renal cell carcinoma (RCC) status post right nephrectomy with abdominal hernia residuals
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 6, 2025
- Citation
- A25011400
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