A MOTHER has been forced to travel to Istanbul for life-saving cancer treatment she hopes will give her more time with her young son.

Colette Nolan, mother to ten-month-old Zebedee, has inflammatory breast cancer which has spread to her liver and bones.

Doctors said she could only be offered palliative care and gave her just six weeks to live.

The Hastings 34-year-old has now flown to Turkey for potentially life-saving hyperthermia treatment not available in the UK but needs to raise thousands of pounds to pay for it.

Colette has been posting videos documenting her treatment on YouTube.

She said: “I desperately need treatment to try to get better. I’m strong. I’m young and I’ve got so much to live for.

“I’ve got my little boy and I need help.

“What I have is so rare. I have been to see ten people for different opinions to try to help me find a cure.

I am working with a top cancer specialist but mainly what I need now is money.

“They don’t think I’m going to make it from their experience but I know I am

“I just want to be with my boy and I want to get better.”

Colette’s friend Emma-Lee Thomas has set up a fundraising page to help her reach the £100,000 she needs for treatment.

She said: “At every stage Colette has shown courage and determination to be cured.

“She has everything to live for – her baby Zebedee, her husband Tim as well as friends all over the world desperate to help her find the treatment she needs.

“We are so inspired by her strength and courage and feel we want to help more.

“Colette is so willing to share all her experiences in the hope to inspire and educate others with cancer and show them that there is another way.”

Colette’s most recent scan showed her cancer had spread through her bones but has not reached any other vital organs.

She has begun treatment in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber and undergone hyperthermia treatment, heating her body up to 40 degrees.

She has been given insulin-based low dose chemotherapy supported by vital vitamin infusions that are not offered in the UK.