New here - breast cancer and travel insurance

Hi CAR1987 

I have metastatic breast cancer and have been using an annual policy from Insurancewith for a number of years. I renewed last week for just over £250 (joint policy with husband). I can travel as often as I want for up to 31 days at a time. Currently I have limited the policy to Europe but it didn’t cost me a lot more to extend it to rest of world excluding the Americas when I wanted to travel to Asia a couple of years ago. The cancellation cover isn’t great but I tend to book at short notice when I can be confident of travelling. I am more concerned about having adequate cover when out there. They do have a complex questionnaire to complete but the person who founded the company set it up when she was having difficulty getting affordable cover after breast cancer. They have a sister search engine Albert&Eddie which perhaps looks wider than their own policies, but searching through it always brings me back to their own policies. 

Hi CAR1987 

My name is Steph, I'm part of the team who looks after the Online Community. May I wish you another warm welcome to the site, I hope that you will find it helpful and supportive. 

I was sorry to hear of your breast cancer diagnosis and the difficulties you're having finding reasonably priced travel insurance. I hope we can help you get away on holiday, there are lots of people here who understand and have the information to support you.

Just to let you know that I moved your question here from the 'help getting started blog' so that you can find the right support from members of the travel insurance forum. It looks like you have already received a helpful reply.

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Hello CAR1987,

I'd suggest you do try Albert & Eddie https://www.albertandeddie.co.uk/ as they are a part of a group that owns other travel insurers and you should receive quotes from these plus possible other non-group insurers.

When I used them I received quotes from group members Insurancewith and Holiday Safe, and the latter cost less despite having the same policy wording.

You could also check Lighthouse Travel Insurance https://www.lighthousetravelinsurance.co.uk/. I haven't any experience of them but Macmillan recently partnered with them.

If you have any problems or doubts answering their health etc. questions I suggest you always give them a call to ensure you answer correctly in case you're unfortunate to have to make a claim later.

I do hope you can get sorted and off on holiday.

Derek.