A BRAVE grandmother who outlived a doctor's cancer prognosis and dedicated herself to raising funds to help send a disabled relative to China has said she will not be able to organise any more events because the disease is spreading.

Diane Harrison, 55, of Horton Bank Top, Bradford, with the help of family and friends, helped organise a fashion show which made more than £800 to get her cousin's husband Stan Padley to Beijing in January for stem-cell treatment designed to restore his voice and help him eat again.

Mrs Harrison had vowed to do her best to help others supporting him raise the last £10,000 needed after he was left brain-damaged after a complication arising from a hip operation in Chesterfield in 2008.

Despite her own health struggle in which she has lived longer than the maximum of 12 months doctors had predicted, she has already raised almost £3,000 at an auction and race night in August at Central Division Working Men's Club in Clayton Lane.

Mrs Harrison, who decided to refuse any more chemotherapy relying on 24 painkillers a day, has also raised £5,400 with a Macmillan coffee morning in the past.

She was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in February 2012 and had major surgery a month later and although her condition improved

in January 2013, after discovering she had the BRCA1 cancer gene, she had a double mastectomy.

In April, 2013 she knew she was not well again and scans and blood tests at Bradford Royal Infirmary confirmed the cancer was back, this time in her pelvic area and has since spread to her back lymph nodes and to one of her lungs.

She had hoped the fashion show would "bring in a few hundred pounds" but it totalled £808, her nephew Chris Kay and his friend Mark Willoughby also went sober for October and raised £2,041.

Mrs Harrison said: "The £10,000 Kay and Stan needed earlier in the year to get to their £35,000 total is now down to £1,000.

"My cancer is now spreading a bit further and I will not be able to organise any more fundraisers but I would just like to thank everyone who has helped us."

To find out more about helping raise the final £1,000 needed go to avoiceforstan.org.