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Dave Coulier has been diagnosed with Stage 3 non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
The Full House alum shared the news on TODAY on Wednesday, telling Hoda Kotb that he received his diagnosis “five weeks ago,” per Variety.
“In that time I’ve had three surgeries, I’ve had chemo, I’ve lost a little bit of hair,” he detailed. “I kinda look like a little baby bird now. But it has been a roller coaster ride, for sure.”
Coulier noted that he has “B-cell lymphoma,” which he described as “very aggressive.” In fact, he shared that “the onset of this growing lymphoma in [his] groin area was very quick.”
“So I said, ‘Something’s not right. I have a golf ball down here,'” he recalled. “So we biopsied it, we took it out. They said, ‘We wish we had better news for you, but you have B-cell lymphoma. We need to get you into chemotherapy right away.'”
Cleveland Clinic notes that B-cell lymphoma is a common type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and is a type of lymphatic system-based blood cancer.
During the segment, he reflected on sharing the news with his wife Melissa, noting, “once that settled in, it was a gut punch.” He then acknowledged “another hurdle” of determining the stage his cancer was in, during which doctors “went into [his] bone marrow.”
“We got good news that day, once we got the results, that it hadn’t spread,” he highlighted. “At that point, the curability rate went up to 90-plus percent, so it’s very treatable.”
According to the National Cancer Institute, stage 3 adult non-Hodgkin lymphoma is found in groups of lymph nodes either above and below the diaphragm, or above the diaphragm and in the spleen. Coulier said that he had a cold when he noticed swelling in a lymph node in his groin, which he claimed grew “to the size of a golf ball in probably five days.”
Coulier told TODAY.com that he expects to be done with his chemotherapy— which he will have six rounds of every 21 days — by February, and anticipates a “total remission.” Nonetheless, he said to Kotb on Wednesday that he is “treating this as a journey.”
“If I can help someone who’s watching today get an early screening, a breast exam, a colonoscopy, a prostate exam, go do it,” he shared. “Because for me, early detection meant everything.”
