PROVO, Utah — Tears stream down Cheryl Rose's face as she talks about her family's life since her husband, Brigham Young men's basketball coach Dave Rose, was treated for pancreatic cancer.

"They're tears of gratitude," she says.

She is grateful that the rare form of cancer that afflicted her husband, a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor, is one that patients can survive, unlike its other form, adenocarcinoma of the pancreas, which typically kills within months.