The Board remands the claims for service connection of lung, bone, and brain cancers to obtain an independent medical opinion regarding the Veteran's in-service exposure to contaminated water at Camp Lejeune.
The deciding factor: The complexity of the case requires an expert medical opinion due to the unknown primary origin of the Veteran's cancer and his history of in-service exposure to contaminated water at Camp Lejeune, which is eligible for presumptive service connection under certain conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- adenocarcinoma of unknown primary (claimed as lung cancer), secondary malignant neoplasm of bone/osseous metastases (claimed as bone cancer), brain metastases/CNS metastases (claimed as brain cancer)
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- Camp Lejeune water
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 2, 2025
- Citation
- A25048411
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Decisions by this judge: 1,446 · Granted: 21% (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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