'Full House' Star Dave Coulier Battling Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma | TMZ Live - video Dailymotion

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Dave Coulier is opening up about his current health journey ... sharing his cancer diagnosis on national television.

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00:00I was at one of P. Diddy's freak-offs.

00:03Freak-offs.

00:04You saw celebrities there that you recognized.

00:07They were a rapper that we all know.

00:10Straight-up porn directed by Diddy.

00:13I'm just grateful to have made it out.

00:15Dave Coulier got a very jarring diagnosis a few weeks ago,

00:19and he opened up about it this morning when he was on the Today Show.

00:23He is now battling cancer,

00:26and he opened up about how he found out

00:29and how he's been treating it.

00:31I will say, when you hear about this,

00:34that someone is making this announcement,

00:36your first thing is, oh, my gosh, I hope they're going to be okay.

00:39You can see here, he has a very positive outlook.

00:42Five weeks ago, I was diagnosed with stage 3 non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

00:48And in that time, I've had three surgeries.

00:51I've had chemo. I've lost a little bit of hair.

00:54I kind of look like a little baby bird now.

00:56But it has been a roller coaster ride, for sure.

01:00We had to find out what the staging was.

01:03And so they went into my bone marrow,

01:06and we got good news that day once we got the results

01:11that it hadn't spread.

01:14And so at that point, the curability rate went up to 90-plus percent.

01:18So it's very treatable.

01:20I'm treating this as a journey,

01:22and if I can help someone who's watching today

01:25get an early screening, a breast exam, a colonoscopy, a prostate exam,

01:31go do it because, you know, for me, early detection meant everything.

01:36Wow, it's pretty amazing that he said he was diagnosed five weeks ago,

01:41and he's already had three surgeries, he's had chemo,

01:44and he's, you know, he seems vibrant.

01:47He seems very up in spirit.

01:49He said he's definitely taking this serious,

01:51but he also wants to keep his comedic and his humor element

01:54into his life.

01:56The good thing, you notice he said there that this is treatable.

01:59Doctors say that if all things go right,

02:01he should be in full remission by February,

02:03which is great because he's on track to be a grandfather soon.

02:07His son is expecting a son.

02:09He wants to teach his grandchild how to play hockey.

02:12So he says he has a lot of life to live.

02:15You know, he's very happy with the fact that he caught this very early

02:18and so soon.

02:20As cancer runs in his family, his sister died of cancer.

02:23His mother last year died of cancer.

02:26His other sister also has cancer right now, is fighting cancer.

02:30So cancer runs in his family,

02:32so for him to just have this positive outlook and to stay positive

02:35is very, very good to see.

02:37Howdy y'all, Tony from Texas.

02:39And it's really sad when we see these actors we grew up with

02:42start getting sick or passing away.

02:44For some reason, I don't know the psychology behind it,

02:47but it really brings our own mortality right in front of our face.

02:51But it's really good to see that he's in good spirits,

02:53and we wish him a great recovery.

02:56We absolutely do.

02:57And again, his spirits are so strong.

03:00You feel it.

'Full House' Star Dave Coulier Battling Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma | TMZ Live

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