The Board remands the claim for service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death to obtain additional evidence and a medical opinion.
The deciding factor: Remand is necessary due to unverified in-service exposure and an inadequate VA medical opinion, as well as to apply sub-regulatory guidance under the PACT Act.
- Claimed conditions
- metastatic lung cancer
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 17, 2025
- Citation
- A25053069
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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
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