The Board remands the claim for a prostate disability to obtain an addendum medical opinion from an appropriate examiner, considering the Veteran's potential exposure to burn pits and other toxins during his service.
The deciding factor: The June 2023 VA examiner's opinion is deemed inadequate due to several reasons, including inconsistencies with the record and failure to consider certain risk factors under the PACT Act.
- Claimed conditions
- prostate cancer status post prostatectomy
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 21, 2025
- Citation
- A25015959
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Decisions by this judge: 964 · Granted: 37% (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.
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection for hypertension and prostate cancer status post prostatectomy as additional development is needed.
- Granted
The Board granted presumptive service connection for prostate cancer, and service connection for erectile dysfunction and incontinence as secondary to the service-connected prostate cancer.
- Granted
The Board granted earlier effective dates for service connection of prostate cancer, erectile dysfunction, and special monthly compensation (SMC) based on loss of use of a creative organ.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for earlier effective dates and a compensable rating for chronic lymphocytic leukemia, hypertension, scars status post radical prostatectomy, erectile dysfunction, and prostate cancer status post prostatectomy. The claim for an increased rating for bilateral hearing loss was dismissed.
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