PRE-WAFFLE:
My husband has stage 4 renal cancer which has metastasised to his hip, chest wall, lungs and stomach. He’s been diagnosed and treated for 2 years and has been doing well on immunotherapy and more recently Tivozanib as part of a clinical trial. His scans currently show the tumours as being stable.
As a bucket list item, we’d hoped to go to France for a couple of months in our motorhome, but getting insurance is like trying to nail jelly to a wall.
My eyes watered when having completed all the questions about the cancer, for a Single Trip, they were quoting £1800-£2500, then I had to contact them by phone to be more closely scrutinised. I wove through all the detailed interrogation until the words CLINICAL TRIAL were forced from me. At that point I heard the door slam in my face.
It seems we are not touchable with a bargepole!
My poor husband, on accepting his impending death, asked the consultant if he could travel abroad and was encouraged to do so and to “fill his boots” so to speak, but as far as insurance companies are concerned, he should sit quietly in the crematorium waiting room awaiting his turn. I feel so angry and upset about this.
RELEVANT QUESTION:
Does anyone know of any insurance company willing to take a punt on a cancer patient that is on a Clinical Trial, without us taking out a mortgage to pay the premium?
Glad to hear your treatment is going well. Commiserations in respect of the insurance.
it’s a shame that there isn’t some charitable/co-operative organisation that could provide emergency cover and or repatriation to incurable patients.. 
