Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers in the UK, with around 59,000¹ women and 420¹ men diagnosed every year. But no matter how common breast cancer is, a breast cancer diagnosis can feel overwhelming, and everyone’s experience is different.
Treatment following a cancer diagnosis can be exhausting both physically and mentally, and so it’s understandable that many people plan a holiday during a break in treatment or at the end of their treatment. However, finding travel insurance at an affordable price that covers a breast cancer diagnosis can sometimes be problematic. Insurancewith was founded by Fiona Macrae after her own breast cancer diagnosis and the difficulties she faced finding suitable, appropriately priced travel insurance. Her experience continues to shape our approach to supporting people with medical conditions. Read Fiona’s story here.
Our travel insurance policies can consider cover for breast cancer as well as a range of other medical conditions.
All standard policies at Insurancewith include cover for:
It can be confusing trying to understand travel insurance policies and ensuring they are suitable for your circumstances. We consider cover for a range of different types of cancers and, where possible, can also extend the cover to protect the whole family. If you prefer, you can also confidentially discuss your breast cancer diagnosis and treatment with one of our trained medical screening team during the quote process.
Getting travel insurance with a breast cancer diagnosis can sometimes be a challenge, even when using some more well-known providers. Premiums can, on occasion, end up being prohibitively expensive – and sometimes finding a suitable travel insurance policy can prove to be very difficult.
At Insurancewith, we take an individual approach to medical screening and work differently to the rest of the market. Our founder, Fiona, found that often travel insurance policies for people with cancer either weren’t available or were expensive – often costing more than the price of the holiday itself!
At Insurancewith, we use a medical risk assessment tool called Protectif to understand your individual circumstances and, where possible, offer an appropriately priced policy. We can consider cover if you:
Cover is subject to medical screening and the policy’s terms and conditions.
Although we ask a few more questions than other providers, getting the right kind of cover on your travels is important.
We provide award-winning cover*, but that’s not all. Some of our policy benefits include:
Free access to Air Doctor Connect, giving you access to over 20,000 doctors in 78 countries. Plus, we’ll waive your excess for outpatient treatment through them!
We will consider covering all cancers. Shown below are the most common types that we are asked to cover. However, if your particular cancer is not shown, don’t worry, because you can still get a quote by entering your type of cancer when prompted during the quote process and proceed from there.
Alternatively, you can call our Customer Service Centre on 0333 005 1066 and they will be happy to process the quote for you.
Insurancewith has bespoke cancer travel insurance cover for the more common types of cancer, such as:
Insurancewith travel insurance was created by people with first-hand experience of cancer, who understand the challenges you may face, when it comes to buying travel insurance, to help give you a suitable policy at an appropriate price. We even have cancer travel insurance policies for rarer cancers such as:
Support can make a real difference when you are living with breast cancer. Insurancewith is proud to support charities including Little Lifts, Make 2nds Count, Keeping Abreast and Fighting to Be Heard, whose work supports people affected by breast cancer in different ways. We donate £1 to one of our supported charities for every policy sold. Find out more about the charities we support.
The support of a charity can be invaluable when going through breast cancer, and in our small way we want to help these charities continue to carry on their valuable work.
Get a free quote online, if you are unsure of your requirements, have questions about our policies or need advice, please contact us or call 0333 005 1066 where a member of our team will be happy to help.
For further advice on travelling abroad with cancer, click here.
Our common-sense approach to travel insurance cover has been recognised by industry peers and customers alike. We want to make it easier for more people to travel. Many of those we have helped talk about how they had almost given up with the idea of getting away. We understand that getting away and knowing you’re protected should something unexpected occur has a real impact.
¹ Figures from Cancer Research UK, based on average annual UK diagnoses in 2019 and 2021–2022.