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Jan 6, 2009

Coach Kay Yow was not with the N.C. State women’s basketball team at Tuesday afternoon’s practice, and the Wolfpack plans to issue a statement on Yow’s future this afternoon.

Yow, who is battling breast cancer, has missed four straight games. The Wolfpack plays at North Carolina Sunday in its next game.

Her oncologist, Dr. Mark Graham, told WRAL Monday that Yow is not close to returning to coaching.

Yow is battling stage four breast cancer, which has spread to her liver and spine, and has missed her team's last four games.

Graham does not rule out a return to coaching for Yow, but cautioned: "It depends on whether she continues to improve."

She is under contract through the 2011-2012 season.

Graham said Yow, the Pack's longtime women's basketball coach, is fighting the same combination of factors in her cancer battle that kept her off the bench for 16 games in the 2006-07 season.

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By scorekeep
Posted Jan 6, 4:00 p.m.

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RE: Yow misses practice, statement expected today

She is a wonderful individual, has done great things with her life and meant a lot to other people. Why don't they just come out and say what the prognosis is? Or do we already know? Please make a statement and, in agreement with dogsrule, leave her alone.

By Rat Rod
Posted Jan 6, 3:44 p.m.

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It's now sounding good. God bless her. She's a great woman.

By dogsrule12cheek
Posted Jan 6, 3:32 p.m.

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Coach Yow is a very strong Lady she is looked up to by Many, even one who don't really watch Basketball we all know who Coach Yow is. I wish her all the strenth and support she needs at this time. Hope to see her soon on the side lines.

By ghimmy51
Posted Jan 6, 3:23 p.m.

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I KNOW Coach Yow is an exceptional role model and a fighter of the first order. PLEASE ... PLEASE ... get out of her face with your microphones and out of her PRIVATE life?

By Triumph
Posted Jan 6, 2:47 p.m.

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Best of luck to her in her recovery. She seems like a great lady and an inspiration to her players and others.