Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2021L00938:reg:7
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2021L00938
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 7
Character Range: 1675–3667

7               Kind of injury, disease or death to which this Statement of Principles relates
(1)          This Statement of Principles is about solar keratosis and death from solar keratosis.
Meaning of solar keratosis
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, solar keratosis:
(a)          means a cutaneous lesion characterised by the local proliferation of atypical (dysplastic) epidermal keratinocytes; and
(b)          includes sun-damaged skin adjacent to a localised skin lesion (field cancerisation); and
(c)          excludes Bowen disease, arsenical keratoses and other keratoses that are not related to ultraviolet light exposure.
Note 1: Solar keratosis is also known as actinic keratosis.
            Note 2: Solar keratoses typically present as single or multiple rough erythematous plaques that occur on sun-damaged skin, but the clinical appearance is highly variable, and lesions can be difficult to visualise.
            Note 3: Solar keratoses may regress spontaneously, remain stable or undergo malignant transformation into invasive squamous cell carcinoma.
(3)          While solar keratosis attracts ICD‑10‑AM code L57.0, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of solar keratosis 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 solar keratosis
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, solar keratosis, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's solar keratosis.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.