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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 myeloma and death from myeloma.
Meaning of myeloma
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, myeloma:
(a)          means a malignant disease of plasma cells, in which a single line of plasma cells accumulates and produces a monoclonal immunoglobulin; and
(b)          includes:
(i)            extramedullary plasmacytoma;
(ii)         multiple myeloma;
(iii)       plasma cell leukaemia; and
(iv)        solitary plasmacytoma of bone.
(3)          While myeloma attracts ICD‑10‑AM code C90, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of myeloma 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 myeloma
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, myeloma, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's myeloma.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.