The Sunderland charity spreading the message of "don't fear the smear"
Amber's Law was set up in 2017
A North East charity are pushing for women who believe they have symptoms of cervical cancer to be seen on demand even if they've been screened recently.
Sunderland charity Amber's Law was founded in the memory of Amber Rose Cliff in January 2017 who passed away following a four year battle with cervical cancer.
Since then they've been raising awareness and pushing for change in her memory.
Kay Attle from the charity tells us as it's vital for women get tested and that testing on demand will help massively if women are in between appointments.
"Smears save lives and they absolutely do," Kay told Greatest Hits Radio.
"We're so lucky in this country that we've got a cervical screening programme so take it up. It's a free test. It might not be the most pleasant experience, but take along your best friend or your sister, or listen to some music. Do what you can to make it a do-able process.
"For anybody who wasn't at school in 2008 and didn't have the HBV vaccine, like myself, if I had a smear 12 months ago or 24 months ago and I started to develop symptoms I would hope that I would be tested and that I would be taken seriously."
The charity have been raising awareness ever since they're now been putting symptom posters on the walls of women toilets in the to help get the message out.
Kay Attle said: "So just a small A5 toilet door sticker where we've taken the thee main symptoms from the NHS website. If it makes one woman go along for their appointment and save themselves some unnecessary treatment in the future then we've done something good."