This Friday, CBS along with two other networks are standing up to cancer with a live fundraiser that starts on Channel 23 at seven but our special cancer series starts tonight.

All week long 23 News Reporter Natalie Kaplan will talk to local hospitals about how they're fighting the disease.

Tonight we start in Freeport, where two women met at Freeport Health Network and battled breast cancer together. Natalie has their touching success story.

Cindy Paisley remembers, "Our last day of radiation when we met outside, we decided or at least I decided to take the scarf off and show my head and I'm done with all my treatment now and then that big hug and our celebration breakfast, it was like, that part of its behind us and now we're going to continue healing together because we have each other."

Two local women are now, tough enough to wear pink but it wasn't always that way. Four years ago, Cindy Paisley and Diane Heeren we're both diagnosed with breast cancer, they soon found out, they wouldn't have to battle it alone.

"Once we met each other we couldn't believe, same age, same type of cancer, same surgeon, going to the same oncologist. We both found our lumps, same side and same everything and then we walked out to have our first breakfast and here we drove the same car!"

They found each other in a waiting room at Freeport Health Network and became two peas in a pod, a support system that was unbreakable.

"When you're weak their strong and when their weak you're strong."

Now both cancer survivors they meet at least once a month to make sure the other is staying strong.

Diane says, "We see each other and she looks wonderful, so we're still doing good." we're doing OK, it's very positive."

Tomorrow, Natalie will show you a new MRI guided breast biopsy at SwedishAmerican Hospital. It can find small breast abnormalities at early stages and offers women a painless biopsy option that doesn't scar. That's Wednesday night on 23 News at 5pm.