'I was quoted £700 for a week's travel insurance - cancer patients are unfairly excluded'

Tom struggled to find insurance for a short break with daughter Olive (Image: Macmillan) Thousands of people with cancer face missing out on summer holidays because they cannot find affordable travel insurance, research suggests. Difficulty securing travel insurance was the second highest serious concern out of 30 cancer-related issues among 2,000 sufferers, a survey for Macmillan Cancer Support found. Exhaustion and fatigue, and bowel and bladder issues, were joint first.

Among those impacted is Tom, 29, who was quoted £600-700 for a trip to Gran Canaria last year. function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.createElement('script');el.

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