S6 Ep22: Travel insurance with breast cancer might be easier than you think – with Fiona Macrae
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S6 Ep22: Travel insurance with breast cancer might be easier than you think – with Fiona Macrae
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In a conversation full of hope and practical tips from their own experiences, Fiona and Laura get stuck into:
- why travel insurance matters, especially when you have a cancer diagnosis,
- how medical screening works and what insurers are really looking for,
- common myths about being “uninsurable” after your treatment changes or a progression,
- confusing terminology when applying for travel insurance and how to make sense of it,
- practical tips for planning trips, timing holidays around treatment, and talking to your medical team,
- Fiona’s own story, taking her frustration with the system and creating a travel insurance brand with people with cancer at its heart.
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Key Topics:
2:24 Why is it important that we travel?
3:33 Fiona's breast cancer diagnosis
6:50 Dealing with a cancer diagnosis as a new mother
7:44 Fiona's diagnosis of metastatic (secondary) breast cancer
12:21 Fiona sets up travel insurance brand Insurancewith
14:38 Do you need travel insurance?
18:25 Declaring breast cancer on your travel insurance
20:40 Getting cover with a new diagnosis or drug
24:33 The importance of the health questionnaire when buying travel insurance
31:45 More claims can be related back to cancer than you might think
33:28 The cost of repatriation
34:57 How does neutropenia affect travel insurance?
39:29 Is flying detrimental to our health?
42:07 Do you need travel insurance if you're staying within the UK?
43:33 When should you book your travel insurance?
44:55 Should you put friends and family on the same insurance policy as you?
46:29 Does the destination country change how expensive insurance is?
47:34 How does mental health work with travel insurance?
50:38 Unhelpful terminology in travel insurance policies
55:53 What about metastatic (secondary) breast cancer in the brain?
1:00:49 High risk activities and insurance with breast cancer
1:02:00 Going on holiday while on a clinical trial
1:02:48 Business insurance and cancer
1:04:57 Practical tips for travelling
1:10:05 What it means to Fiona to "live well"
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