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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 mesothelioma and death from mesothelioma.
Meaning of mesothelioma
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, mesothelioma:
(a)          means a primary malignant neoplasm of the mesothelial cells that are located in the visceral and parietal mesothelium of the pleura, pericardium, peritoneum and tunica vaginalis testis; and
(b)          excludes soft tissue sarcoma, carcinoid tumour, non-Hodgkin lymphoma and Hodgkin lymphoma.
(3)          While mesothelioma attracts ICD‑10‑AM code C45, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of mesothelioma 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 mesothelioma
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, mesothelioma, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's mesothelioma.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.