Commissioner raises $5,000 for cancer awareness

A joint effort by DeKalb County Commissioner Sharon Barnes Sutton and the DeKalb-Fulton Hospital Authority has raised $5,000 to fight ovarian cancer.

The donation to the Georgia Ovarian Cancer Alliance for promotion of early detection of the disease that kills more than 15,000 women every year.

More information: www.gaovariancancer.org.

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