The Board remanded the claims for service connection for a bowel condition and a compensable rating for residuals of bladder cancer due to new and relevant evidence.
The deciding factor: New and relevant evidence, including the Veteran's testimony about the cause of his bowel condition, was submitted.
- Claimed conditions
- bowel condition, residuals of bladder cancer
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 8, 2025
- Citation
- A25002076
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,084 · Granted: 20% (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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided to remand the Veteran's claims for service connection due to errors in duty to assist and insufficient development of evidence. The Veteran is required to undergo VA examinations for his claimed bowel, bladder, memory loss, and psychiatric conditions.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claims for benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, valvular heart disease, hypertension, left wrist condition, right wrist condition, left ankle condition, right ankle condition, right elbow condition, left elbow condition, neck condition, right arm condition, left arm condition, sleep apnea, left knee condition, right knee condition, back condition, bowel condition, headaches, and bilateral flatfoot for further adjudication due to a failure to provide notice of the right to a hearing as provided by 38 C.F.R. �� 3.103(b)(1) and (d)(1).
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's appeal for service connection for residuals of bladder cancer is dismissed as the claim has been granted. The issues of service connection for colon and lung cancers are remanded due to a duty-to-assist error.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's appeal for a rating in excess of 10 percent for residuals of bladder cancer is dismissed because the March 2025 rating decision was a purely ministerial implementation of the March 2025 Board decision.
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