Full house Star Dave Coulier has been diagnosed with stage 3 non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and reveals he first noticed his symptoms last month when he came down with a cold.
“Five weeks ago I was diagnosed with stage 3 non-Hodgkin lymphoma. And in that time, I had three surgeries, I had chemotherapy and I lost some hair,” the 65-year-old told NBC. Today On Wednesday.
“Now I look like a little bird, but it sure has been a roller coaster.”
Coulier explained that when he got sick last month he was shocked to discover a golf ball-sized lump in his groin that swelled out of nowhere. He said he had noticed enlarged lymph nodes in his armpits and neck during past respiratory infections, but this was different.
“It swelled up right away,” Coulier said. Today. “I thought, ‘Wow, neither do I. really sickor my body is really reacting to something.’”
Her doctor recommended CT scans and PET scans, along with a biopsy, and a few days after the test, she received an unfortunate call.
“Three days later, my doctors called me and said, ‘I wish we had better news for you, but you have non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and it’s called B cell and it’s very aggressive”he recalled to People.
“I went from having a little cold to having cancer, and it was pretty overwhelming,” she says. “This has been a really fast, rollercoaster ride.”
From LR: ‘Three by Three’ cast Dave Coulier, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Bob Saget, Jodie Sweetin, Candace Cameron and John Stamos.
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The comedian and actor, who rose to fame as Uncle Joey in Full house In the ’90s, he said Today host Hoda Kotb that he was alone when he received the news and that when he told his wife, Melissa Bring, she told him that “stop making jokes.”
Once the shock wore off, Coulier said he, his wife and friends in the medical field got to work facing his diagnosis “head on.”
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“We all put our heads together and said, ‘Okay, where are we going?’ And they had a very specific plan about how they were going to treat this,” he told People, adding that an additional test showing the cancer had not spread to his bone marrow was a relief.
“At that moment, my chances of healing went from low to 90 percent. And that was a great day.”
He also talked more about his experience on his podcast. Full rewind.
“I started the podcast wearing a hat and said, I’ve always been a man of many hats, but this hat has a special meaning because a couple of weeks ago I was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma,” he said. “That was really a conscious decision: I’m going to face this head on and I want people to know it’s my life. I’m not going to try to hide anything. “I prefer to talk about it, open the debate and inspire people.”
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma is the most common type of cancer that affects the lymphatic system, which is the network of organs, ducts and nodes that deliver immune cells that help the body fight infections and diseases.
According Lymphoma CanadaNon-Hodgkin lymphoma is not a single disease, but a group of at least 60 closely related cancers that affect lymphocytes.
Depending on the type and stage at diagnosis, treatment options include chemotherapy, immunotherapy and targeted drug therapy, radiation, stem cell treatment, and surgery.
It is the fifth most common cancer diagnosed in Canada and men are diagnosed slightly more frequently than women.
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