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Cancer and travel health insurance: What coverage do you get?
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I’ve been in remission from incurable stage 4 appendix cancer for about 4 years. I’ve been happy to stay within Australia, for which my normal health cover has been enough. I used to travel overseas a lot, and my feet are getting itchy again!While I was working through cancer treatment I had to miss 2 trips to the US because my firm’s insurers would only cover me at exorbitant premiums. I totally understood why my firm wouldn’t pay them and why I couldn’t go.Any insurance travel tips when leaving your country’s borders?
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We scuba dive, so we get DAN (Divers Alert Network) insurance to cover diving medical and because most places require you have dive insurance.
They also have trip insurance on a per trip and per year basis that covers also medical as well as travel.
I don't think you have to be a diver to join, although I would call them to be sure. We do a lot of travel and our US based insurance doesn't cover us in another country, so we get the yearly coverage. They don't ask about pre existing conditions.
https://dan.org/membership-insurance/membership/membership-faqs/