Actor Dave Coulier, who performed Uncle Joey on the beloved sitcom “Full House,” has been identified with stage 3 non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, he mentioned Wednesday.
“Five weeks in the past I used to be identified with stage three non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. And in that point, I’ve had three surgical procedures, I’ve had chemo, I’ve misplaced a bit of little bit of hair,” the 65-year-old advised NBC’s “TODAY” present.
“I sort of appear to be a bit of child hen now, nevertheless it has been a curler coaster journey for positive,” he added.
He mentioned he first had a chilly and skilled slight swelling in his groin space that grew quickly to the dimensions of a golf ball inside 5 days. His medical doctors determined to do some scans and a biopsy and he was identified with B-cell lymphoma, which he described as “a really aggressive kind.”
Coulier mentioned the information of the prognosis was a “intestine punch.”
Doctors then checked out his bone marrow to find out the staging and located that it hadn’t unfold.
“We obtained excellent news that day, as soon as we obtained the outcomes that, you realize, it hadn’t unfold. And so at that time, the curability fee went as much as 90-plus p.c. So it’s very treatable,” he mentioned.
Since then he is undergone a spherical of chemotherapy, with one other spherical scheduled for Friday. His chemotherapy ought to wrap in February.
“Should be whole remission by that point. Fingers crossed. I’m treating this as a journey,” Coulier mentioned. “If I might help somebody who’s watching right now get an early screening — a breast examination, a colonoscopy, a prostate examination — go do it as a result of, for me, early detection meant every little thing.”
Coulier performed Joey Gladstone on the ABC sitcom “Full House” from 1987 to 1995, in addition to within the 2016-2020 reboot “Fuller House.”
He has been candid about his well being journey prior to now. In 2022, he shared an Instagram submit saying he has been sober since Jan. 1, 2020.
In that submit he mentioned: “I cherished booze, nevertheless it didn’t love me again. I made a decision to decide for my very own well-being, my household and for these round me who I really like so dearly.”
He mentioned that getting sober helped him deal with the lack of his father, brother, and fellow “Full House” co-star Bob Saget, who died of head trauma in January 2022.
“Thank goodness I used to be sober throughout [the deaths of] my brother and my dad and Bob, as a result of it actually helped me undergo a extremely robust time the place I needed to be in contact with the rawness of these emotions once more,” he advised beforehand mentioned on “TODAY With Hoda & Jenna.”