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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 cerebral meninges and death from malignant neoplasm of the cerebral meninges.
Meaning of malignant neoplasm of the cerebral meninges
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, malignant neoplasm of the cerebral meninges:
(a)          means               a primary malignant neoplasm arising from the cells of the cerebral meninges; and
(b)          excludes soft tissue sarcoma, carcinoid tumour, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Hodgkin's lymphoma and melanoma.
(3)          While malignant neoplasm of the cerebral meninges attracts ICD‑10‑AM code C70.0 or C70.9, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of malignant neoplasm of the cerebral meninges 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 cerebral meninges
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, malignant neoplasm of the cerebral meninges, 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 cerebral meninges.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.