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‘Full House’ Star Announces ‘Very Aggressive’ Cancer Diagnosis
Full House star Dave Coulier revealed to People that he has been diagnosed with a “very aggressive” form of stage three non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Coulier was diagnosed in October after he came down with an upper respiratory infection which caused severe swelling in his lymph nodes. After a round of PET and CT scans, Coulier received the unfortunate news. “Three days later, my doctors called me back and they said, ‘We 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 said.
“I went from, I got a little bit of a head cold to I have cancer, and it was pretty overwhelming,” Coulier recalled. “This has been a really fast roller coaster ride of a journey.”
Following his diagnosis, Coulier and his wife, Melissa Bring, worked with some of their friends in the medical field to troubleshoot Coulier’s diagnosis. “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,” Coulier said.
“When I first got the news, I was stunned, of course, because I didn't expect it, and then reality settled in and I found myself remarkably calm with whatever the outcome was going to be,” Coulier admitted.
One bit of good news came when test results of his bone marrow showed no traces of the disease. “At that point, my chances of curable went from something low to 90 percent range. And so that was a great day,” he said.
Coulier recently completed his sixth round of chemotherapy and is keeping a positive outlook on the future. He’s staying strong for his wife and son, Luc, who is expecting his first child in March. The comedian lost his mother, sister, and niece to breast cancer, and he’s determined to meet his diagnosis with the same resistance they did. “I saw what those women in my family went through, and I thought to myself, ‘If I can be just 1/10th of a percent as strong as they were, then I'm going to be just fine,” he said.
“I don't know how to explain it, but there was an inner calm about all of it,” Coulier said of his diagnosis, “and I think that that's part of what I've seen with the women in my family go through. They really instilled that in me and inspired me in a way because they were magnificent going through what they went through, and I just thought, ‘I'm okay with this too.’ I've had an incredible life on a journey with incredible people around me and I'm okay.”