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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 chronic myeloid leukaemia and death from chronic myeloid leukaemia.
Meaning of chronic myeloid leukaemia
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, chronic myeloid leukaemia:
(a)          means a malignant neoplasm of the blood with a predominant overpopulation of the myeloid cells and the presence of a Philadelphia chromosome or a BCR-ABL1 gene or BCR-ABL1 gene product; and
(b)          excludes:
                 (i)            atypical chronic myeloid leukaemia;
                 (ii)         chronic eosinophilic leukaemia;
                 (iii)       chronic neutrophilic leukaemia;
                 (iv)        leukemoid reactions; and
                 (v)          myelomonocytic leukaemia.
Note 1: chronic myeloid leukemia is also known as chronic granulocytic leukaemia, chronic myeloblastic leukaemia, chronic myelocytic leukaemia and chronic myelogenous leukaemia.
Note 2: Symptoms of chronic myeloid leukaemia can include fatigue, weight loss, excess sweating, abdominal fullness, abdominal discomfort, and bleeding episodes, but 20-50% can also be diagnosed in an asymptomatic state by incidental blood testing.
(3)          While chronic myeloid leukaemia attracts ICD‑10‑AM code C92.1, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of chronic myeloid leukaemia 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 chronic myeloid leukaemia
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, chronic myeloid leukaemia, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's chronic myeloid leukaemia.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.