Full House star Dave Coulier has been identified with Stage 3 non-Hodgkin lymphoma, revealing that he first observed his signs final month when he got here down with a chilly.
“Five weeks ago I was diagnosed with Stage 3 non-Hodgkin lymphoma. And in that time, I’ve had three surgeries, I’ve had chemo, I’ve lost a little bit of hair,” the 65-year-old informed NBC’s Today on Wednesday.
“I kind of look like a little baby bird now, but it has been a roller-coaster ride for sure.”
Coulier defined that when he fell sick final month he was stunned to find a golf ball-sized lump in his groin that swelled up out of nowhere. He mentioned he’d observed enlarged lymph nodes in his armpits and neck throughout previous respiratory infections, however this was totally different.
“It swelled up immediately,” Coulier informed Today. “I thought, ‘Wow, I’m either really sick, or my body’s really reacting to something.’”
His physician really helpful CT and PET scans, together with a biopsy, and inside days of the testing, he acquired an unlucky name.
“Three days later, my doctors called me back and they said, ‘We wish we had better news for you, but you have non-Hodgkin lymphoma and it’s called B cell and it’s very aggressive,’” he recalled to People.
“I went from, I got a little bit of a head cold to I have cancer, and it was pretty overwhelming,” he says. “This has been a really fast roller-coaster ride of a journey.”
From L-R: ‘Full House’ solid Dave Coulier, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Bob Saget, Jodie Sweetin, Candace Cameron and John Stamos.
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The comic and actor, who discovered fame as Uncle Joey on Full House within the ’90s, informed Today host Hoda Kotb that he was alone when he acquired the information and that when he informed his spouse, Melissa Bring, she informed him to “quit making jokes.”
Once the shock wore off, Coulier mentioned he, his spouse and mates within the medical area started working to fulfill his analysis “head-on.”
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“We all kind of put our heads together and said, ‘OK, where are we going?’ And they had a very specific plan for how they were going to treat this,” he informed People, including that an extra take a look at displaying the most cancers had not unfold to his bone marrow was a aid.
“At that point, my chances of curable went from something low to 90 per cent range. And so that was a great day.”
He additionally spoke additional about his expertise on his podcast Full House Rewind.
“I started the podcast wearing a hat, and I said, I’ve always been a man of many hats, but this hat has special significance because a couple of weeks ago, I was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma,” he mentioned. “That was really a conscious decision of, I’m going to meet this head-on, and I want people to know it’s my life. I’m not going to try and hide anything. I would rather talk about it and open the discussion and inspire people.”
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma is the most typical sort of most cancers that impacts the lymphatic system, which is the community of organs, ducts and nodes that dispenses immune cells that assist the physique battle off an infection and illness.
According to Lymphoma Canada, non-Hodgkin lymphoma isn’t a single illness, however a bunch of at the very least 60 carefully associated cancers that have an effect on the lymphocytes.
Depending on the sort and stage at analysis, therapy choices embrace chemotherapy, immunotherapy and focused drug remedy, radiation, stem cell therapy and surgical procedure.
It is the fifth-most frequent most cancers identified in Canada and males are identified barely extra usually than girls.
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