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- Dave Coulier announced he has a new type of cancer, this time of the head and neck
- The news comes after he beat non-Hodgkin lymphoma earlier this year
- The Full House star says the cancer is treatable, and he’ll be doing targeted radiation
Dave Coulier is facing another devastating diagnosis, nine months after beating stage 3 non-Hodgkin Lymphoma.
During an appearance on Today, the Full House star announced that he was recently newly diagnosed with p16 squamous carcinoma, which is a type of head and neck cancer. He said the new cancer was discovered when he went for a checkup and PET scan.
“Totally unrelated to the previous cancer that I had,” he said. While on the morning news program, he also revealed he created a digital marketplace called AwareMarket that’s devoted to the sale of toxin-free, holistic products. The inspiration came as he tried to rid toxic products from his life as he was going through chemotherapy for non-Hodgkin Lymphoma.
In November of 2024, Coulier revealed his stage 3 non-Hodgkin Lymphoma diagnosis exclusively to PEOPLE. He explained that an upper respiratory infection resulted in swelling of his lymph nodes, which led him to get tested and then eventually diagnosed in October 2024.
“This has been a really fast roller-coaster ride of a journey,” he said at the time. “I looked at how those words affected my wife Melissa and I thought, you know what, I’m going to be strong throughout this, not just for me, but I’m going to be strong for her.”
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The two cancer diagnosis are not the first time the beloved actor, has been affected by the disease.
“I lost my mom to breast cancer. I lost my sister Sharon to breast cancer. She was 36 years old. I lost my niece, Shannon. She was 29 years old,” he told PEOPLE in 2024, adding that his older sister Karen was also going through cancer alongside him.
“I saw what those women in my family went through, and I thought to myself, ‘If I can be just 1/10th of a percent as strong as they were, then I’m going to be just fine,’ ” he added.
In an March interview with Parade, he gave an update on his chemotherapy treatments, noting that they were difficult, and that he had days where he wasn’t sure where things were headed.
He said that he and his wife Melissa, whom he married in July 2014, even started to have “what if” conversations when he was struggling with his treatment.
“After [the fifth round of] chemo, he was like, ‘I don’t know if I could do this again,’” Melissa told the outlet. “He was like, ‘I’m prepared either way. If I die, I die. And if I can stay here, great. I want to.’ Those conversations were obviously so tough.”
Coulier says that by publicly sharing both of his journey with cancer, he hopes he can inspire others to get tested early.
“Take great care of yourself, because there’s a lot to live for,” he told fans in 2024. “And if that means talking with your doctors or getting a mammogram or a breast exam or colonoscopy, it can really make a big change in your life.”
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