A BRAVE mum recently diagnosed with breast cancer is all set to run the Race for Life to raise awareness of the disease.

Delia Minett will run on Sunday with six-year old daughter Charlotte and 26 mothers, staff and pupils from Sunnyside School, which her daughter attends.

"You've got to focus positively," said the 39-year-old.

"Cancer is catching people in younger life. You expect to catch it later in life. When it's very early and you have a six-year-old child it's scary."

Miss Minett who lives in Leigh, near Suckley, with her long-term partner, discovered a lump in her breast in May this year, and has since undergone chemotherapy in Cheltenham.

She had organised the team from Sunnyside School in Barbourne, Worcester, before she knew she had cancer.

She was inspired after entering the Imperial Cancer Research Fund's Race for Life last year.

"It was such an amazing experience," she said. "The moving thing is that women are running in memory of friends or family or perhaps are suffering from cancer themselves."

Miss Minett, who used to work as a sales manager for the Evening News, stressed how important it was for women to check themselves for any unusual lumps.

"More than one woman in 10 gets breast cancer," she said. "It's a massive problem. I want to say good luck to everyone on Sunday."

6 Race For Life is due to start at Worcester's Pitchcroft racecourse at 11am on Sunday. Among those taking part is Sarah Gordon, of Worcester. She ran the Race for Life last year and was inspired to do so after a young boy she used to babysit developed cancer aged around 15 months and later died.