We all know a friend or a loved one who has been diagnosed with cancer. It may even have happened to you. It’s not that rare any more — there are 2.2 million people living in the UK today who have had the disease.
What you realise, the more you come into contact with it, is how it is not just one disease but hundreds of differing ones. Doctors know this, of course; cancer charities know it too.
The only people that don’t are large parts of the insurance industry. For them the big C is just a big no-no. It is making life miserable for patients and so it is time they caught up.
Last week Jonnie Irwin, the host of the Channel
