Dave Coulier Reveals He Has Stage 3 Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
Nov 14, 2024 9:10:30 GMT -5
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Dave Coulier has been diagnosed with stage 3 non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
The Full House actor, 65, tells PEOPLE exclusively he was diagnosed in October after an upper respiratory infection caused major swelling in his lymph nodes.
As his swelling increased rapidly, with one area growing to the size of a golf ball, he says his doctor advised PET and CT scans as well as a biopsy, which ultimately gave him news that changed his life.
“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 recalls.
“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.”
With non-Hodgkin lymphoma, white blood cells grow abnormally, causing tumors to grow throughout the body, according to the Mayo Clinic. Swollen lymph nodes are a symptom, as Coulier experienced, as well as chest pain or fever.
B cell lymphoma — the type Coulier has — is "rare," the Mayo Clinic says, and "attacks the skin."
Upon learning of his diagnosis, Coulier says he and his wife Melissa Bring — along with some of his close friends in the medical field — immediately worked together to meet his diagnosis “head-on.”
“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,” he says, noting that a bright spot in his diagnosis was when his bone marrow test came back negative. “At that point, my chances of curable went from something low to 90% range. And so that was a great day.”
The Full House actor, 65, tells PEOPLE exclusively he was diagnosed in October after an upper respiratory infection caused major swelling in his lymph nodes.
As his swelling increased rapidly, with one area growing to the size of a golf ball, he says his doctor advised PET and CT scans as well as a biopsy, which ultimately gave him news that changed his life.
“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 recalls.
“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.”
With non-Hodgkin lymphoma, white blood cells grow abnormally, causing tumors to grow throughout the body, according to the Mayo Clinic. Swollen lymph nodes are a symptom, as Coulier experienced, as well as chest pain or fever.
B cell lymphoma — the type Coulier has — is "rare," the Mayo Clinic says, and "attacks the skin."
Upon learning of his diagnosis, Coulier says he and his wife Melissa Bring — along with some of his close friends in the medical field — immediately worked together to meet his diagnosis “head-on.”
“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,” he says, noting that a bright spot in his diagnosis was when his bone marrow test came back negative. “At that point, my chances of curable went from something low to 90% range. And so that was a great day.”
