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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 eye and death from malignant neoplasm of the eye.
Meaning of malignant neoplasm of the eye
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, malignant neoplasm of the eye:
(a)          means a primary malignant neoplasm arising from the tissue of the eyeball and conjunctiva; and
(b)          includes:
(i)            malignant melanoma of the uveal tract (iris, ciliary body and choroid); and
(ii)         malignant melanoma of the conjunctiva, including melanoma in situ; and
(iii)       squamous cell carcinoma of the cornea or the conjunctiva, including carcinoma in situ; and
(c)          excludes eye retinoblastoma, connective tissue and bone tumours (sarcomas), vascular tumours (sarcoma), non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Hodgkin's lymphoma and carcinoid tumour.
Note: The eye means the eyeball with conjunctival covering but excluding extraocular muscles, connecting nerves (optic nerve, autonomic sympathetic and parasympathetic nerves), arteries, veins and lymphatics, other orbital contents such as orbital fat and orbital bone, eyelid skin, Meibomian glands, the caruncle and the lacrimal apparatus.
(3)          While malignant neoplasm of the eye attracts ICD‑10‑AM code C69.0, C69.1, C69.2, C69.3, C69.4, C69.8, C69.9 or D09.2, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of malignant neoplasm of the eye 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 eye
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, malignant neoplasm of the eye, 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 eye.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.