A WOMAN with terminal ovarian cancer is trying to fundraise £70,000 for treatment to prolong her life for her son.

Laura Mackie, 43, of St Ewens Road, Bulwark, Chepstow, was diagnosed with stage three ovarian cancer in May this year and was told that her tumour was in-operable. She is now trying to raise £70,000 to undergo stem-cell therapy or virotherapy treatment which is not yet available in the UK.

Donations of £6,502 have already been received to the No Time To Lose gofundmecampaign to help Ms Mackie.

She underwent an debunking operation in October which took eight hours at Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital in East Acton, which removed her ovaries and uterus.

She is now undergoing chemotherapy in Cheltenham which is due to finish in April.

She said: “I’m fighting for Keelan, he’s my 23-year-old son. I’m trying to stay alive for him.

“He’s been my rock looking after me and he’s always been my best friend.”

She added: “They call the ovarian cancer the whispering killer as I had no symptoms and by the time my stomach went large it was too late really.”

Ms Mackie said her cancer is a very aggressive form.

She said: “My lymph notes were infected. I had a plump belly and a bad back but I never mentioned the back problems as I broke my back in a car crash a few years ago when I had cauda equina syndrome. The GP ran a blood test which didn’t show anything but my stomach went huge.

“At the time I was a size six and it looked as though I was nine months pregnant.”

Ms Mackie spent a week inNevill Hall Hospital, Abergavenny.

The mother of one then had an ultrasound at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, and was diagnosed with stage three ovarian cancer.

Surgeons drained six litres of fluid from her stomach and began chemotherapy.

To donate visit gofundme.com/eom0tg or facebook.com/laurahasnotimetolose