Monta Brown, a McDonough city councilman, said he was honored when the marketing staff at Henry Medical Center asked him to take part in a campaign to educate the public about breast cancer.
"They didn't know that my grandmother died of breast cancer," he said. "Having gone through everything my family went through, I figured it was a lighthearted way to bring attention to a very serious subject."
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