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or intracranial surgery, within the ten years before the clinical worsening of hypopituitarism;
(32)      undergoing a course of therapeutic radiation for cancer, where the pituitary or hypothalamus was in the field of radiation, before the clinical  worsening of hypopituitarism;
(33)      having a space occupying lesion that involves, or impinges on, the pituitary gland or hypothalamus at the time of the clinical worsening of hypopituitarism;
(34)      taking an immune checkpoint inhibitor or an interferon within the one year before the clinical worsening of hypopituitarism;
            Note: immune checkpoint inhibitor is defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.
(35)      regularly using intranasal cocaine such that there is destruction of the nasal septum, palate or paranasal sinuses before the clinical worsening of hypopituitarism;
(36)      for lymphocytic hypophysitis only, being pregnant within the six months before the clinical worsening of hypopituitarism;
            Note: lymphocytic hypophysitis is defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.
(37)      inability to obtain appropriate clinical management for hypopituitarism.
     10           Relationship to service
(1)          The existence in a person of any factor referred to in section 9, must be related to the relevant service rendered by the person.
(2)          The factors set out in subsections 9(19) to (9)(37) apply only to material contribution to, or aggravation of, hypopituitarism where the person's hypopituitarism was suffered or contracted before or during (but did not arise out of) the person's relevant service.
     11           Factors referring to an injury or disease covered by another Statement of Principles
In this Statement of Principles:
(1)          if a factor referred to in section 9 applies in relation to a person; and
(2)          that factor refers to an injury or disease in respect of which a Statement of Principles has been determined under subsection 196B(2) of the VEA;
then the factors in that Statement of Principles apply in accordance with the terms of that Statement of Principles as in force from time to time.

Schedule 1 - Dictionary
Note: See Section 6