The Board remands the claims for service connection for colon and bowel disabilities to obtain a medical opinion addressing whether these conditions are related to the Veteran's service-connected Hodgkin's lymphoma, including chemotherapy and radiation treatments.
The deciding factor: Remand is necessary as the previous opinions did not address the Veteran's November 2024 statement regarding his symptoms and the link to his treatment for Hodgkin's lymphoma.
- Claimed conditions
- colon disability, bowel disability
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 29, 2025
- Citation
- 25013455
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Decisions by this judge: 2,456 · Granted: 23% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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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
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- Dismissed
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- Granted
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- Dismissed
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