The Board remands the claims for service connection for peripheral arterial disease and carcinoma, to be further developed with additional medical opinions.
The deciding factor: Further development is necessary due to potential exposure to toxins during military service, including herbicide agents and UV sun exposure in Vietnam.
- Claimed conditions
- carcinoma, claimed as malignant melanoma and basal cell carcinoma, peripheral arterial disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 25, 2025
- Citation
- A25027790
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,726 · Granted: 19% (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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