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Travel insurance ordeal for cancer patients

Tuesday, 22nd May 2007

Thousands of people who have cancer - and even those who are no longer suffering from the disease - are finding it difficult or impossible to buy travel insurance.

Some people are being quoted double or even triple the cost of their holiday, according to research for Macmillan Cancer Support. Others are being asked insensitive questions about their illness when inquiring about insurance.

The group's study found that two in five cancer patients had been quoted high travel insurance premiums, and six per cent had been refused insurance altogether. Almost one in 10 had resorted to going on holiday without cover.

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One respondent, whose husband has a

rare form of cancer but is not terminally ill, was asked such questions as: "Is your husband going to die?" and: "How long has he got?", Macmillan said.

Macmillan Cancer Support is launching a campaign today to highlight the problem. In the next few months it will be pressing to find a solution with the insurance industry.

"Cancer is changing, and it looks like the insurance industry needs to move with the times," said Ayesha Owusu-Barnaby, the charity's head of campaigns. "It has to recognise that not everybody with cancer is going to die.

"Hundreds of people contact Macmillan about travel insurance every month. They tell us they're being refused travel insurance or quoted massive premiums and they just don't understand why. Some people also tell us that the insensitive attitudes of some travel insurance sales staff leave them deeply upset.

"Most people live long and active lives after cancer and that's why Macmillan is calling on the travel insurance industry to look again at the risk posed by people affected by cancer and improve the deal offered to them."

A total of 1,137 people were questioned as part of the charity's research.

It is not the first time insurers have been taken to task over this issue. The charity Cancerbackup found the same problem when it conducted a survey last year.

It claimed that almost 90 per cent of people who had been affected by cancer found it difficult or impossible to get cover, even if they had been clear of the disease for years.

"I felt so worried to be turned down by all these insurers that when I saw my specialist I asked if he was keeping anything from me," said one patient.

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/05/22/neyes122.xml

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Travel insurance ordeal for cancer patients