Dave Coulier, who played everyone’s favorite Uncle Joey on Full House, has cancer. Dave, 65, shared his stage 3 non-Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis with People. He explained that he learned of the cancer after becoming extremely ill with an upper respiratory infection in October. His lymph nodes became very swollen, and his doctor ordered PET and CT scans and a biopsy.
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“I went from, I got a little bit of a head cold to I have cancer, and it was pretty overwhelming,” he told People. “This has been a really fast roller coaster ride of a journey.”
Dave Coulier Has A Rare Form Of Cancer
According to People, Dave Coulier has B cell lymphoma, which is “rare.” When Dave and his wife, Melissa Bring, learned of his diagnosis, they knew they wanted to fight.
“We all kind of put our heads together and said, ‘Okay, where are we going?’ And they had a very specific plan for how they were going to treat this,” he said. “At that point, my chances of curable went from something low to 90% range. And so that was a great day.”
Dave Coulier began cancer treatment soon after his diagnosis and shaved his head in a “preemptive strike.” He explained more on his Full House Rewind podcast with Marla Sokoloff and said he wanted to be transparent about his health.
“I started the podcast wearing a hat, and I said, I’ve always been a man of many hats, but this hat has special significance because a couple of weeks ago, I was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma,” Dave said. “That was really a conscious decision of, I’m going to meet this head-on, and I want people to know it’s my life. I’m not going to try and hide anything. I would rather talk about it and open the discussion and inspire people.”
Dave’s Diagnosis Came As A Shock
But, he is focusing on the positive. “I have my good days. I have my bad days,” he told People. “Some days are nauseous and dizzy, and then there’s other days where the steroids kick in, and I feel like I have a ton of energy. I actually skated yesterday with some friends here in Detroit. We just went and skated around and shot pucks, and it was wonderful just to be out there doing something that I love and just trying to stay focused on all the great stuff that I have in my life.”
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