Time from diagnosis to treatment

I don't blame you re insurance. However, after watching Rip off Britain Holidays and people not declaring, then being landed with thousands for medical care abroad, I would be too scared to go without insurance. Big gamble.

You break your leg with normal travel insurance - they fly you home - not declaring P C on your proposal form they leave you there - broken leg and all. I agree with Sidsmum - I am to scared to do it, so I have declared all my issues and Mrs Millibob (her issues too I mean!!). Brian.

I will declare everything when we start going abroad again, I don't like cheating, and pleased when people who do cheat are court out.

Yup, I declare everything. The older we get, the longer the list! It feels like a ‘confessional’ :(. The problem with, say a fracture, is that insurance companies could potentially say it’s the HT that has caused weaker bones that fracture more easily? Or, worse still, secondaries. Anything for a get out clause!  I’m getting very cynical in my dotage!

Guess what I take HT and have thin bone's could fracture at anytime 

We've told them everything - it's just being honest and not worrying. and yes I do take Calcium and vitamin D tablets to help with my bones. So tight am I I even asked for them on prescription!

I have to take Andronic Acid tablet 1 per week and 2 accret b3 1

Hi all

Judging by all of the replies, the subject of insurance should maybe have a thread all of its own. You would think that with the number of people diagnosed with cancer there would be big business for a company that offered realistic premiums for holidays.

To clarify. Although diagnosed with Pca I currently feel as fit and well as I have ever done. and am not undergoing any treatment. I am not sure about cheating anyone as I am fully aware that if something does go wrong medically on holiday ,I and I alone will bear the financial consequences. In 40yrs of travelling I have only ever taken out insurance for long haul destinations and never for european trips. Call be foolish/reckless but touch wood I have never needed it. This is not to suggest that anyone that is further down the treatment path should do the same, indeed, I know that in the future I shall have to bite the bullet and take it out myself.

Best wishes

Ian

Hi Ian

There is a thread. "Travel Insurance Forum for Cancer Patients". and yes I agree with you there is a gap in the market here. We as a group will at some point be one in every two humans!!

Kind Regards - Brian.

Hi all

Well, after 7 months and two weeks of scans tests and waiting I finally had my MDT result today delivered by a Urology kidney specialist who obviously hadn't even read my notes and could not have cared less. Apparently the consultant I have been under has gone part time and will not be back until April. I was given a few notes and told to choose between RP and RT. He told me that the lesion was T3C but reviewing the scan reports that I made him print out for me when I got home I discovered that T3C was the MRI initial assessment but the PET scan downgraded that to T2C. I suppose its only 1 difference;-) Thoroughly disillusioned I asked him to refer me to a surgeon just so that I could speak to someone with some sense and if I am still unsure I will request a meeting with an oncologist. I have no idea what experience the surgeon I have been referred to has and cannot find out much online so I am now thinking of seeing him but with a mind to researching the private route. After 7.5 months I am totally fed up. A cynic might think that this is a deliberate act by the Welsh NHS to clear the backlog.

Best wishes and good luck all.

Ian