In memory of Artina M. Kimbrough
I was a 30 year Marine and retired from the Corps in 1986. While in the Corps I had a check-up every year. After retiring I never went to a doctor, but in 2000 my wife and children pushed me to get a check-up and I am thankful I did. I found out at that time I had prostate cancer and I said it was my turn in the barrel. My mother and four of her sisters died of breast cancer, my grandfather of lung cancer and my father of prostate cancer.
I went through radiation for eight weeks and now I am 9 years out. I started to go to a support group that I am now the president of and I give lectures on prostate cancer to keep other men from going through what I had to.
Robert Kimbrough
Jacksonville, NC