Rotorua's Talei Morrison has asked her followers to have the utmost belief and strength in the knowledge she will be doing whatever it takes to eradicate cancer from her body.
In a stoic video uploaded to YouTube on Saturday, Morrison, wearing a "Smear Your Mea" T-shirt, looks directly at the camera and tells viewers her cancer has spread.
"On Monday April 9, I received a phone call from the oncology unit at Waikato Hospital asking me if I could go in the next day," Morrison said on her video. "So we went in and my doctor shared with me that unfortunately my cancer has spread. It is now in the glands of my stomach, between my heart and my back, in my collar bone and around my kidneys.
"Both my radiation doctor and my chemotherapy doctor agree that there is no more that conventional medicine can do and, at some point, this cancer will take my life.