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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 soft tissue sarcoma and death from soft tissue sarcoma.
Meaning of soft tissue sarcoma
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, soft tissue sarcoma:
(a)          means a malignant neoplasm of soft connective tissue including fibrous, fat, muscle (cardiac, skeletal muscle and smooth muscle), tendon, nerve sheath, vascular, histiocytic and synovial tissue; and
(b)          includes:
(i)            non-articular cartilage sarcoma;
(ii)         synovial sarcoma;
(iii)       malignant mast cell tumour (mast cell sarcoma);
(iv)        dendritic cell sarcoma including interdigitating (dendritic cell) sarcoma, Langerhans cell sarcoma, and sarcoma of follicular dendritic cells;
(v)          histiocytic sarcoma (malignant histiocytosis);
(vi)        malignant odontogenic tumours;
(vii)     atypical fibroxanthoma; and
(viii)   Mullerian adenosarcoma; and
(c)          excludes:
(i)            carcinosarcoma (malignant mesodermal mixed tumour or malignant mixed Mullerian tumour);
(ii)         Kaposi sarcoma;
(iii)       malignant neoplasm of the bone and articular cartilage (osteosarcoma and chondrosarcoma);
(iv)        malignant neoplasm of the cerebral meninges;
(v)          mesothelioma;
(vi)        leukaemia;
(vii)     non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and Hodgkin lymphoma;
(viii)   myeloma and malignant plasma cell neoplasms;
(ix)        primary myelofibrosis; and
(x)          myeloid sarcoma and granulocytic sarcoma.
Note: Some of the names of soft tissue sarcoma include liposarcoma, fibrosarcoma, angiosarcoma, leiomyosarcoma, rhabdomyosarcoma, extraskeletal chondrosarcoma, and synovial sarcoma.
(3)          While soft tissue sarcoma attracts ICD‑10‑AM codes C22.3, C22.4, C32.3, C48, C49, C54.2, C96.2, C96.4, or C96.8, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of soft tissue sarcoma 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 soft tissue sarcoma
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, soft tissue sarcoma, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's soft tissue sarcoma.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.