Remanded (sent back)
The Board remanded the claims for an earlier effective date for coronary artery disease and service connection for lung cancer due to failures in obtaining relevant medical records and adequate medical opinions.
The deciding factor: The remand is necessary because the AOJ failed to obtain relevant identified private treatment records pertaining to the issue of entitlement to an earlier effective date for CAD and to obtain an adequate medical opinion for the claimed lung cancer.
- Claimed conditions
- coronary artery disease, lung cancer
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 29, 2025
- Citation
- A25008042
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