” Total House” star Dave Coulier, who played the Tanner mother’s quirky Uncle Joey, has cancers.
The 65-year-old publicly disclosed his diagnosis Wednesday, telling , People , and appearing on NBC ‘s ,” Today”  , to confirm that he was diagnosed with Stage 3 non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma five weeks prior.
The Times requested comments from Coulier members, but they did not respond right away on Wednesday.
The professional from” Fuller House” claimed in October that he had an upper respiratory infection that had caused significant swelling in his lymph nodes. He claimed that a network in his thigh swelled to the size of a golf ball as the swelling grew immediately. He asked his doctors to remove it and do a colonoscopy, which came up cancerous.
” ]M] con doctors called me back and they said,’ We wish we had better information for you, but you have non-Hodgkin’s cancer and it’s called B body and it’s very extreme,'” he told People. ” I went from, I got a little bit of a head cool to I have cancer, and it was very overwhelming”.
Non-Hodgkin’s cancer develops in B-lymphocytes, which are part of the body’s immune system and account for the majority of non-Hodgkin lymphocytes, according to the , American Cancer Society. More than 80, 000 Americans are diagnosed with the disease each year, and the , five-year relative success rate , is 74 %. Depending on the type of cancer and the level at which it was diagnosed and treated, this portion can vary significantly.
Coulier made light of his outlook during his” Now” sit-down with network Hoda Kotb.
” My joke is that in four short days I’ve gone from a Virgo to a Cancer”, he quipped. I tried to keep both a sense of reality and fun in it.
He was relieved to learn that the cancer had not spread to his spine bone as his wife Melissa, his physicians, and his family worked out a treatment program.
” ]Stage 3] does n’t sound great”, Coulier said, noting that curability rate is higher than 90 %. ” It’s very treatable”.
The” Robot Chicken” and” American Dad”! In order to speed up treatment, the voice actor has now undergone procedure to install a chemotherapy port. He received his examination two days after receiving chemotherapy, and he is scheduled to receive six shells every 21 times through February 2025. After that, his physicians told him he was hope” full cure”.
” You hear’ treatment,’ and it scares the resource out of you”, Coulier told Kotb. You do n’t know what to expect, so the first round was pretty intense. You do n’t know how you’re going to feel. Is this going to strike me quickly? Is it going to be devastating? Will I leave this place right away?”
” It’s been a bit of a roller coaster. There]are ] days where I feel unbelievable”, he added. There are also times when I really sit back and let this become what it will be.
” The True Ghostbusters” student said he has lost at least three family members to cancer, including his mother and sister. He said,” It’s a really easy thing to do and it may add years to your life,” in the hopes that sharing his story may encourage people to get tested for cancer or take various tests to find out.
Coulier has n’t been able to play his beloved hockey, but he is looking forward to having his son with his first child. He has also continued to record episodes of the” Full House Rewind” podcast. He’s even expecting a visit from his longtime , co-star John Stamos , after this week.
Coulier, Stamos and , late comedian Bob Saget , played a trio of” Three Men and a Baby”-style dads and uncles in the ABC sitcom” Full House” and its Netflix revival,  ,” Fuller House” . , But instead of a baby they were raising a widower’s three young daughters and expanded their San Francisco home to accommodate the growing family.  , Coulier played , the basement-dwelling Uncle Joey, a struggling stand-up actor who used the phrase” Reduce it out” and a marionette to help train the Tanner women career training.
The condition comedy, which ran for eight seasons from 1987 to 1995, even starred , Candace Cameron Bure,  , Jodie Sweetin,  , Lori Loughlin, Andrea Barber and , Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.
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