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Cancer patients 'missing holidays' or travelling uninsured amid 'unfair' insurance costs
Cancer patients are being priced out of holidays because they can't afford the inflated insurance premiums companies are charging, a charity has said.
Patients and people in recovery from the deadly disease are "frequently" refused cover or quoted unaffordable premiums, forcing some to travel without insurance or miss trips altogether, according to Maggie's cancer support charity. Prohibitively high prices mean they cannot visit friends and family abroad and are forced to avoid business travel, the charity said.
Josh Cull, from Bournemouth, was quoted a minimum of £3,000 for insurance when he decided to visit South Asia after he had recovered from "completely unexpected" brain cancer. Josh, who was diagnosed with a medulloblastoma brain tumour in 2021 when he was 25, said he "went through chemotherapy and radiotherapy as well as major surgery to remove the tumour, which affected my eyesight and my ability to walk".
Initially told he had only three months to live, Josh, now 28, admitted he "was lucky to come out the other side, and the trip [with his fiancee and brother] was supposed to be a reward for everything we'd been through". But, he said, he "couldn't get an insurance quote for less than £3,000.
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