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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 pancreas and death from malignant neoplasm of the pancreas.
Meaning of malignant neoplasm of the pancreas

(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, malignant neoplasm of the pancreas:
(a)          means a primary malignant neoplasm arising from the cells of the exocrine pancreas; and
(b)          excludes soft tissue sarcoma, carcinoid tumour, endocrine tumours, non-Hodgkin lymphoma and Hodgkin's lymphoma.

(3)          While malignant neoplasm of the pancreas attracts ICD‑10‑AM code C25.0, C25.1, C25.2, C25.3, C25.7 or C25.8, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of malignant neoplasm of the pancreas 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 pancreas

(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, malignant neoplasm of the pancreas, 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 pancreas.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.