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7               Kind of injury, disease or death to which this Statement of Principles relates
(1)          This Statement of Principles is about malignant neoplasm of the renal pelvis and ureter and death from malignant neoplasm of the renal pelvis and ureter.
Meaning of malignant neoplasm of the renal pelvis and ureter
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, malignant neoplasm of the renal pelvis and ureter:
(a)          means a primary malignant neoplasm arising from the epithelial cells of the upper urinary tract, including the renal calyces, renal pelvis, pelviureteric junction and ureter, but excluding the ureteric orifice of the bladder; and
(b)          includes urothelial carcinoma (also known as transitional cell carcinoma), squamous cell carcinoma, adenocarcinoma, small cell carcinoma and carcinoma in situ; and
(c)          excludes soft tissue sarcoma, carcinoid tumour, non-Hodgkin lymphoma and Hodgkin's lymphoma.
(3)          While malignant neoplasm of the renal pelvis and ureter attracts ICD‑10‑AM code C65 or C66, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of malignant neoplasm of the renal pelvis and ureter is that given in subsection (2).
(4)          For subsection (3), a reference to an ICD-10-AM code is a reference to the code assigned to a particular kind of injury or disease in The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision, Australian Modification (ICD-10-AM), Tenth Edition, effective date of 1 July 2017, copyrighted by the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, ISBN 978-1-76007-296-4.
Death from malignant neoplasm of the renal pelvis and ureter
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, malignant neoplasm of the renal pelvis and ureter, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's malignant neoplasm of the renal pelvis and ureter.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.