QUICK TAKES - Sept. 16, 2009
Associated Press
Kathryn Joosten, who plays the crotchety Karen McCluskey on ABC’s “Desperate Housewives,” is battling a recurrence of lung cancer.
Joosten’s publicist, Thomas DeLorenzo, said a spot on the left lung was detected during a physical.
He said the 69-year-old actress started smoking when she was 16 but quit in 2001 after her first lung cancer diagnosis.
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