Cancer: We're in a New Age

Last week we learned that Kay Yow, longtime women's basketball coach for North Carolina State, died of breast cancer. We also learned that Jeanne Peck, a North Carolina activist and Race for the Cure fundraiser, also died of breast cancer. In the same week.

However, we're in an entirely different age now. Doctors and researchers say huge strides have been made in the 20 years since both women were diagnosed, with death rates falling about 40 percent. Women who are diagnosed with the disease today have a much different experience than either Yow or Peck.

Hope grows with this new age. Hope grows because of the strides made in treatment and research.