Full House star Dave Coulier reveals new cancer diagnosis months after beating lymphoma

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.“They said it’s totally unrelated to my non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.This is a new cancer.

… I said, ‘Are you kidding me?'” he said on “Today.”“They said it could stem from having an HPV virus up to 30 years ago.A lot of people carry the HPV virus, but they said mine activated and turned into a carcinoma,” Coulier added.The “Muppet Babies” star confirmed that his throat cancer was discovered “early enough” and is “very treatable.” He’s undergoing 35 treatments in total, Monday to Friday, until Dec.

31.“I get to start the new year saying, I finished radiation yesterday! It’s kind of serendipitous,” he shared.Coulier revealed that he’s experiencing “side effects” from treatment including nausea, “radiation brain,” and pain on the left side of his face and tongue where the tissue was removed for the biopsy.He also opened up about how being diagnosed with two cancers in one year has taken a toll on him.“It’s...