‘Full House’ star Dave Coulier reveals new cancer diagnosis months after beating lymphoma
NY Post
Dave Coulier is battling cancer — again.
The “Full House” actor, 66, revealed Tuesday that he’s been diagnosed with tongue cancer, several months after announcing he had beaten his battle with Stage 3 non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
“To go through chemotherapy and feel that relief of whoah, it’s gone, and then to get a test that says, well now you’ve got another kind of cancer … it is a shock to the system,” Coulier said on “Today.”
“A couple of months ago, I had a PET scan, and something flared on the scan,” he explained. “The doctor said, ‘We don’t know what it is, but there’s something at the base of your tongue.'”
Coulier’s doctor performed a biopsy which initially didn’t detect cancer, but when the actor got a PET scan in October, he learned the growth on his tongue had flared again and grown.
Coulier went to an ear, nose and throat oncologist, got a CT scan and an MRI, and underwent another biopsy, which confirmed he had early stage P16 carcinoma, or oropharyngeal tongue cancer.
