A MUM-of-three fighting terminal cancer needs £50,000 by the end of the month in order to continue life-saving treatment abroad.

Polly Haydock, 37, of Gadbury Fold, Atherton, and her husband Dan say they have got themselves heavily into debt helping to fund revolutionary immunotherapy at the Hallwang Clinic in southern Germany.

Dan claims the latest round of treatment in January, which cost £113,000, has helped to clear his wife's body of some of her cancerous tumours.

But he says they cannot afford to continue the treatment, which is designed to boost the body's natural defences to fight off diseases but is unavailable in this country, and has made a desperate plea for more donations to help save Polly's life.

The 40-year-old said: "We have been told that as a result of the treatment to date all the tumours have disappeared from her bones and one of the bigger ones in her liver has also gone.

"We are eternally grateful for the £210,000 that has already been raised and it is really difficult to come back home from Germany and ask for yet more money.

"But if people share Polly's story with all their friends on social media maybe we can reach people who have not heard about her plight and who would be more than happy to donate.

"I know no other way to keep my wife alive than to ask for an immediate injection of cash.

"We need £50,000 by the end of the month, otherwise continuing the treatment in Germany will be very, very difficult."

Polly, who was initially diagnosed with bowel cancer in October 2015, was told in July that she had six months to live after the cancer spread into her lymph nodes, bones, liver and lungs.

She says she nearly died last month after her body reached badly to some of the chemotherapy she was given in Germany.

Fearing her heart was failing, medics rushed her to another hospital, where a tube was inserted from a vein in her wrist to her heart and an emergency angiogram was performed.

Polly said: "Thankfully my heart was in perfect working order and it appears that I had a hypersensitivity to the chemotherapy.

"That day I could have died, and not from the cancer.

"I am so thankful that I am here, have a wonderful husband and still have a chance to make it. However I beg of you to please keep donating.

"There is another chemotherapy I can try while I await the targeted treatment being planned through the liver biopsy.

"We are already well into double figures on our credit cards and we still desperately need your help.

"I can't let my children see their mummy through their worried, too advanced for their years' eyes much longer. I hate to see them go through such silent anxiety.

"We have come so far and the results are promising, however the funds have dried up and finished.

"I still have the will to go through anything at all for my beautiful babies.

"Please don't give up on me."

A full course of immunotherapy takes between one and two years and is predicted to cost a total of £410,000, which is the target that has been set on Polly's GoFundMe page.

Polly and Dan have spent £10,000 of their own money on the treatment.

Comedian Peter Kay has donated more than £148,000 from the proceeds of two question and answer events at Blackpool Opera House and the Real Housewives Of Cheshire star Dawn Ward raised £1,900 from a party at her home.

The local community has also rallied for Polly, with a fun day at Atherton Cricket Club amassing £2,700, a push and pull strongman event at Leigh Miners Welfare Institute raising £2,250 and the Legend's Bar in Hindley Green collecting £2,132.

To make a donation visit bit.ly/2edzUZv.