Sánchez is committed to guaranteeing the right to be forgotten for cancer patients

The Government is going to promote the modification of a royal decree law to prevent discrimination against former cancer patients, who now suffer more burdensome conditions in insurance and mortgage contracts, and thus guarantee the “right to be forgotten oncology”.

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has transferred his commitment to “immediately implement this new right” to the representatives of different entities and associations in the fight against cancer with whom he met this Saturday at the Government Delegation in Andalusia before of his meeting in Seville, according to sources from Moncloa.

To this end, the Government will promote the modification of Royal Legislative Decree 1/2007, of November 16, which approves the consolidated text of the General Law for the Defense of Consumers and Users and other complementary laws, and of the Law of the Insurance Contract.

The intention of the Government is that as of June all clauses based on an oncological history “that exclude or discriminate when contracting products or services” are declared null and prohibit that having suffered from cancer serves to “impose more burdensome conditions on insurance contracts”.

In addition, the Government plans to establish the right not to declare that they have suffered from cancer when these former patients go to take out insurance linked to a mortgage loan. These new rights will benefit all people who have completed cancer treatment five years before the date of signing the contract, without a subsequent relapse, according to Moncloa sources..