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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 thyroid gland and death from malignant neoplasm of the thyroid gland.
Meaning of malignant neoplasm of the thyroid gland
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, malignant neoplasm of the thyroid gland:
(a)          means a primary malignant neoplasm arising from the follicular epithelial cells of the thyroid gland; and
(b)          includes:
(i)            anaplastic thyroid cancer;
(ii)         follicular thyroid cancer;
(iii)       Hurthle cell thyroid cancer;
(iv)        mixed medullary and follicular thyroid cancer;
(v)          papillary thyroid cancer; and
(vi)        thyroid neoplasms of uncertain malignant potential; and
(c)          excludes:
(i)            haematolymphoid tumours including Hodgkin's lymphoma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma;
(ii)         mesenchymal tumours including soft tissue sarcoma; and
(iii)       neuroendocrine tumours including medullary thyroid carcinoma.
(3)          While malignant neoplasm of the thyroid gland attracts ICD‑10‑AM code C73, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of malignant neoplasm of the thyroid gland 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 thyroid gland
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, malignant neoplasm of the thyroid gland, 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 thyroid gland.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.