Four out of five cancer patients say they have difficulties obtaining “sensibly priced” travel insurance as a petition demanding change in the industry has reached more than 132,000 signatures.
The PLANETS cancer charity, which helps patients with pancreatic, liver, colorectal, abdominal and neuroendocrine cancer, launched the petition as it said sufferers were being denied valuable holiday respite because of “extortionate” costs with some insurers refusing to cover patients at all.
A survey of cancer charity CEOs carried out last month by Cancer52, an organisation which represents more than 100 cancer charities, found that 83% said their patients reported difficulties obtaining sensibly priced insurance for foreign travel, with almost 50% regularly modifying plans and 38% often abandoning them altogether.
