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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 melanoma of the skin and death from malignant melanoma of the skin.
Meaning of malignant melanoma of the skin
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, malignant melanoma of the skin:
(a)          means a primary malignant neoplasm arising from the melanocytes; and
(b)          includes:
(i)            melanoma in situ including Hutchinson melanotic freckle/lentigo maligna;
(ii)         superficial spreading melanoma;
(iii)       lentigo maligna melanoma;
(iv)        nodular melanoma;
(v)          desmoplastic melanoma;
(vi)        amelanotic melanoma; and
(vii)     malignant melanoma of the skin of the lip, anogenital region, and acral regions (palms of the hands, soles of the feet, and skin underlying the nails); and
(c)          excludes:
(i)            malignant melanoma of the eye;
(ii)         malignant melanoma of the mucosa; and
(iii)       melanocytic naevi.
(3)          While malignant melanoma of the skin attracts ICD‑10‑AM codes C43 and D03, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of malignant melanoma of the skin 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 melanoma of the skin
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, malignant melanoma of the skin, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's malignant melanoma of the skin.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.