More than 100 people joined the march to the Senedd

Jayne Sullivan, 45, brought her vigil to a close after AMs voted to speed up the process of approving new drugs for the NHS.

Health Minister Brian Gibbons told AMs he "expected" local health boards all over Wales to approve the drug.

It means women with breast cancer could have the drug early in their treatment.

Some LHBs will fund the drug despite the fact it will not be licensed to treat early stage breast cancer in the UK until March.

Ms Sullivan has spent seven days and six nights in the foyer of the original assembly building.

Women like myself and Joanne want to be here for our children in five years' time Jayne Sullivan

She said she would go home for the night on Tuesday but would return on Wednesday to keep the pressure on the assembly government.

Earlier in the day, she had led a march of more than 100 people to move her protest to the new Senedd.

In the Senedd's first debate, a Lib Dem motion on speeding up the approval process for new drugs was passed after Labour decided to back it.

The assembly government said it was committed to speeding up the process.

Dr Gibbons said: "We are in a situation where there is a broad consensus on the main issues."

Ms Sullivan told BBC Wales: "I haven't given [the protest] up. I'm prepared to stop the 24-hour vigil. However I will be back at 10am.

"The health minister has encouraged uniformity among the heatlh authorities.

"The fact is we have only got the west health authorities holding out. He has encouraged them to join their counterparts in the north and south.

"I came in and Herceptin was very much at the bottom of the agenda.

Ms Sullivan has spent days in the assembly foyer

"I must commend our ministers, of all parties, for listening and actually bringing this point to a question in the assembly, and of course an encouragement by our health mininster."

"When your back is against the wall, you'll try anything. There aren't any other options for me. Every drug has risks. I have no other option and I want that chance."

Support

Many of the protesters on the march were women wearing pink clothing and carrying pink balloons, the colour adopted by breast cancer charities.

The march was led by Ms Sullivan and Joanne Stockford, 36, from Cardiff, who came with her two-year-old daughter Ella.

Ms Sullivan, who has two teenage children, said she knew the support was there for people in her situation, adding: "Women like myself and Joanne want to be here for our children in five years' time."

Mrs Stockford said: "I came down here because I have been watching Jayne's progress on the TV and it is obviously something close to my heart.

"I'm halfway through my treatment, so hopefully by the time I can take Herceptin, all this will mean I can get it."

"I probably can't have any more children so I am blessed to have Ella. I just want to be around for her."

The first debate in the Senedd was on the issue of drug approval in the Welsh NHS.