'Full House' star Dave Coulier has been diagnosed with stage 3 non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The actor and comedian told People magazine that he was diagnosed in October after an upper respiratory infection caused swelling in his lymph nodes, leading his doctor to advise that he get PET and CT scans and a biopsy. The actor explained, "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.'"
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00:00Full House star Dave Coulier has been diagnosed with stage 3 non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
00:05The actor and comedian told People Magazine that he was diagnosed in October after an upper
00:10respiratory infection caused swelling in his lymph nodes, leading the actor to get a biopsy.
00:15The actor explained,
00:16"'Three days later, my doctors called me back and they said,
00:19we wish we had better news for you, but you have non-Hodgkin's lymphoma,
00:23and it's called B-cell, and it's very aggressive."
00:26He added,
00:26"'I went from, I got a little bit of a head cold, to I have cancer,
00:30and it was pretty overwhelming. This has been a really fast rollercoaster ride of a journey.'"
00:35The 65-year-old played Joey Gladstone on the hit ABC sitcom Full House from 1987 to 1995,
00:42and reprised the role for Netflix's Fuller House, which ran from 2016 to 2020.
00:47He told NBC News' Today show that he's had three surgeries since he was diagnosed five weeks ago.
00:53Kouyé opened up further about his diagnosis on Wednesday's Full House Rewind podcast,
00:58which he co-hosts with Marla Sokoloff.
01:00"'That was really a conscious decision of, I'm going to meet this head on,
01:03and I want people to know it's my life. I'm not going to try and hide anything.
01:07I would rather talk about it and open the discussion and inspire people.'"
01:10And Kouyé says he's remarkably calm with whatever happens.
01:14"'I don't know how to explain it, but there was an inner calm about all of it.
01:17And I think that that's part of what I've seen with the women in my family go through.
01:21They really instilled that in me and inspired me in a way because they were magnificent going
01:25through what they went through. And I just thought, I'm okay with this too.'"
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