The Board remands the case for additional development, including a TERA opinion regarding the Veteran's cause of death.
The deciding factor: Additional development is necessary due to the enactment of the PACT Act and the need to consider the synergistic effect of toxic exposure risk activities.
- Claimed conditions
- adenocarcinoma
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 4, 2025
- Citation
- 25014568
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,249 · Granted: 37% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
A remand sends an issue back for more development, often a new examination or missing records. It does not award the benefit or decide the final outcome. The original decision explains the additional work ordered.
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