A MUM with terminal cancer who fought for life-extending drugs on the NHS will donate the profits from a deeply personal book to charity.

Barbara Moss, of Worcester, expects to finish writing her book called Who’s Been Peeping in My Bed? within a fortnight.

The book is about the emotional rollercoaster of a terminal diagnosis and how she helped fight flaws in the healthcare system.

She needs help to find a publisher for the book and with sponsorship to get her 120-page emotional tour de force on bookshop shelves.

Mrs Moss plans to split all the money from sales between two charities that are close to her heart – Bowel Cancer UK and St Richard’s Hospice in Wildwood Drive, Worcester, which provides care for people with life-limiting illnesses.

Mrs Moss, aged 54, of Aconbury Close, Worcester, said: “I haven’t written this book to make money for myself. Both charities have been so good to me.

“I also felt the book might be useful to people in the medical staff so they can get more of an all round picture. It is a very, very personal book. I have written about all my thoughts and feelings.”

The book covers her diagnosis, how she cashed in her own pension to pay for private treatment and how she fought for cancer-busting top-up drugs to be available on the NHS.

Mrs Moss has a husband, Mark, 46, and two sons, Jevan, 23, and Aidan, 22, who have had to come to terms in their own way with her diagnosis.

The title of the book was chosen because it sounded like that of a fairytale. Mrs Moss said it is a miracle she is still alive after she was first diagnosed with cancer more than two years ago.

She was diagnosed with bowel cancer and given just months to live in November 2006, but had the tumour removed after it shrank following a combination of chemotherapy and the cancer-busting “top-up” drug Avastin.

She later campaigned for Avastin and other cancer-busting drugs to be made more widely available on the NHS after she paid £21,000 for her own care.

Mrs Moss believes the drug dramatically increased the length and quality of her life.

She was later paid back £13,658 of her medical bill by Worcestershire Primary Care Trust – the cost of the care she would have received free on the NHS had she not opted to pay for extra top-up drugs privately (drugs then not available on the NHS).

The cancer returned in May last year, this time affecting her lymph nodes, chest and neck.

She is now in remission but has been told by doctors that the cancer will return.

If you can help Mrs Moss get her book published contact her by e-mail at m.b.moss@btinternet.com.