A mum-of-two was told the devastating news she may have just 12 months left to live after her cancer returned for the third time.
Nikki Davis, from Halewood, was 37 when she was first diagnosed with Peritoneal cancer at the start of 2018 after she went to the doctors complaining of stomach pain.
Since then, she has undergone several rounds of chemotherapy and was told she was in remission.
But in April last year, Nikki, now 41, was told the cancer had returned for the third time and this time it was terminal.
Despite the diagnosis, Nikki is determined to make the most of the time she has left with her children Louis Taylor, 20, and Abbie Taylor, 22.
She has compiled a bucket list of the things she wants to do, with a Go Fund Me page set up by her niece Chloe Davis to help her complete this.
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Chloe told the ECHO: "She's very brave, she just gets on with it. I don't know how she does it.
"She just wants to spend as much time as possible with her family."
Last month, Nikki was told by doctors at the Christie Hospital in Manchester that the cancer has now spread to her liver.
She will undergo intensive chemotherapy in two weeks and will then move into a hospice in Woolton.
Among the things on her bucket list are a trip to Chester Zoo to see the meerkats, having breakfast with llamas, going on a trip to London and going on holiday with her children.
Chloe said: "Even now she's thinking about things to do for the kids not for herself - she's very selfless.
"She's got two children Louis and Abbie, I think she wants to go on holiday with them."
Before she was first diagnosed, Nikki underwent tests which found she had a gene called Barca 1, which puts someone at a greater risk of developing breast cancer and ovarian cancer.
Aged 30 at the time, she had preventative surgery including a double mastectomy and had her ovaries removed.
Speaking to the ECHO, Chloe said other women in her family who were also carriers of the gene have died from cancer.
Chloe said: "We didn't know anything at all about the gene before my nan - Nikki's mum - was diagnosed with it.
"It was just on the off chance that the doctor had said 'we're testing for this' and they found out my nan had it."
Nikki and her family are hoping to raise awareness of the gene and encourage others to get tested if they believe they may be affected.
A message on the Go Fund Me page reads: "Nikki is only 41 and unfortunately time isn’t on her hands. She has a simple bucket list of small things that other people would usually just take for granted.
"After all of the heartbreak and loss in our family over the last few years We would love nothing more than to help make her smile again. "
To visit and donate to the fundraising page click here.
