Dave Coulier battling second cancer diagnosis after lymphoma recovery

“Full Home” star Dave Coulier is dealing with a battle with most cancers for the second time in lower than a 12 months.

The beloved comic, 66, revealed he was recognized with HPV-related oropharyngeal tongue most cancers in October – a discovery made simply months after celebrating his restoration from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

“To undergo chemotherapy and really feel the reduction of ‘Wow, it is gone,’ after which get a take a look at that claims, ‘Effectively, now you’ve a special sort of most cancers’… it is a shock to the system,” Coulier mentioned on “Today.”

The Hollywood actor mentioned his new prognosis confirmed no warning indicators.

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Dave Coulier shared that he had been recognized with a second type of most cancers. (Nathan Congleton/NBC through Getty Pictures)

In March, Coulier accomplished chemotherapy and acquired encouraging information from his docs that there have been “no indicators” of lymphoma. However a follow-up PET scan shortly modified all the pieces.

“Just a few months in the past I had a PET scan and one thing flashed on the scan,” he remembers.

“The physician mentioned, ‘We do not know what it’s, however there’s one thing on the base of your tongue.'”

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A painful biopsy initially got here again clear, he mentioned.

“We thought, ‘That is nice. We’re nonetheless undecided what it’s, however there aren’t any most cancers cells,'” he mentioned.

In March, Coulier accomplished chemotherapy and acquired encouraging information from his docs that there have been “no indicators” of lymphoma. (Kans Yeh/FilmMagic)

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However throughout his subsequent scheduled PET scan in October, docs found the expansion had returned – and enlarged.

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A second biopsy, taken after elimination of a bigger piece of tissue, confirmed an early stage P16 carcinoma. “They mentioned it is fully unrelated to my non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. It is a new type of most cancers. … I mentioned, ‘Are you kidding me?'” Coulier mentioned.

Docs defined that P16-positive cancers are linked to HPV-16. “They mentioned it might come from the truth that we had an HPV virus 30 years in the past,” he mentioned. “Many individuals carry the HPV virus, however they mentioned mine activated and changed into a carcinoma.”

Regardless of the devastating information, Coulier noticed a silver lining: “We caught it early sufficient and it is vitally treatable. … It has a 90% treatment charge.” His physician informed him that radiation therapies would start instantly.

Coulier is now present process 35 radiation therapies, scheduled Monday by Friday by the tip of the 12 months. “It is a very totally different animal than chemo,” he famous. Unwanted effects embrace nausea, “irradiation of the mind” and protracted ache from the biopsy. Nonetheless, he retained his trademark humor, saying, “My joke is often…I am doing rather well for a man with most cancers.”

Coulier starred within the common sitcom ‘Full Home’. (ABC Photograph Archive/Disney Basic Leisure Content material through Getty Pictures)

His final therapy is scheduled for December 31.

“I begin the brand new 12 months with the thought: ‘I completed radiation yesterday!’ It is a bit of a coincidence,” he mentioned.

Coulier continued to share the toll his most cancers journey has taken.

“It is emotional. It is psychologically draining. It is also a giant burden on my spouse Melissa, which is the most important burden on me as this impacts her,” he mentioned.

Regardless of all this, Coulier says he stays “cautiously optimistic.”

“I will be on the opposite aspect of it,” he famous.

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John Stamos beforehand shaved Dave Coulier’s head after his first most cancers prognosis. (John Stamos/Instagram)

He credited his first most cancers prognosis with serving to docs detect the second.

“The silver lining right here is that I had most cancers, which allowed me to find my different most cancers,” he mentioned. “If I hadn’t gone in and listened to my docs … I’d be in a world of harm.”

Coulier mentioned this 12 months has reshaped the best way he approaches his wellness.

He now focuses on every day train, cleaner consuming, sauna classes and infrared mild remedy.

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“Full Home” lasted eight seasons, from 1987 to 1995. (Getty Pictures)

“I’ve began to actually give my physique an opportunity,” he mentioned on “In the present day.”

Chemotherapy additionally led him to analysis the components of each product he used — a “mild bulb second” that led to the creation of AwearMarket, which he known as “a digital market for toxin-free wellness merchandise.”

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“I’ve taken an entire new way of living, the place I am very – I do not wish to maintain going again to this phrase – however now I am conscious,” Coulier mentioned.

Coulier starred within the hit sitcom “Full Home” alongside the late Bob Saget, John Stamos, Lori Loughlin, Candace Cameron Bure, Jodie Sweetin, Andrea Barber and Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. The present lasted eight seasons, from 1987 to 1995.