Ask Kathryn Joosten about lung cancer. Go ahead. After all, the Emmy-nominated “Desperate Housewives” actress has survived it — twice.

“Lung cancer continues to be the least funded in dollars of the four major cancers,” Joosten said, “yet it takes more lives than all of them combined.” To battle that, Joosten and 8-year-old lung cancer survivor Gabby Wilson will be on the oceanfront in Santa Monica on Saturday morning leading a walk/run to benefit lung cancer research.

In our last “sound-off” day, I asked the following question: “What are the top lung cancer questions you would like to have answered by the foremost lung cancer thought-leaders, oncologists, scientists, researchers, etc.?”

Two leading lung cancer organizations unite to push for international efforts to eradicate lung cancer

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — For more than three years, the Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation (http://www.lungcancerfoundation.org) in San Francisco and the Joan Gaeta Lung Cancer Fund (formerly Foundation) in Atlanta, have worked tirelessly back and forth across the country in their efforts to eradicate lung cancer.

For more than three years, the Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation in San Francisco and the Joan Gaeta Lung Cancer Fund (formerly Foundation) in Atlanta, have worked tirelessly back and forth across the country in their efforts to eradicate lung cancer.