TRISH Law is supporting a new campaign to improve cancer care in Wales.

The Blaenau Gwent AM whose husband Peter died of a cancerous brain tumour, will join leading cancer care crusader Jayne Sullivan to launch the campaign in Tredegar on Tuesday - the birthplace of Aneurin Bevan, founder of the NHS.

Mrs Sullivan wants to create a Wales Cancer Screening Committee to ensure that cancer services are properly co-ordinated and standardised.

She first hit the news headlines when she staged a week-long sit-in and sleep-in at the Assembly in Cardiff Bay last year in protest at the "postcode lottery" for the Herceptin drug for women in Wales.

Mrs Sullivan has since been campaigning on other cancer care fronts including, successfully, the availability of brachytherapy services in Wales.

"We need to bring together chief executives of UK charities, Assembly members and clinicians to look at and discuss a range of issues concerning cancer screening," she said.

"We need a debate and at the moment we don't have a debate."

Mrs Law has pledged to do all she can to help her cause.

"Having lost my husband to cancer, I want to ensure that cancers are diagnosed at the very earliest opportunity - and that means screening at the very earliest opportunity," she said.

The launch of the campaign will take place at the Aneurin Bevan Memorial stones, Tredegar on Tuesday morning.

A group of local school children will also join her to show their support for the campaign.

Mrs Sullivan promises that, unless there was early recognition of the need for a cancer screening committee, the campaign would be taken to the Assembly for a two-day vigil on July 3 and 4.