Dave Courier is battling tongue cancer, months after announcing he had beaten lymphoma.
The “Full House” alum shared the latest diagnosis on Tuesday’s “Today” show, calling the news “a shock to the system.”
The 66-year-old actor clarified, “It has nothing to do with my non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. This is a new cancer. I said, ‘Are you kidding me?'”
He said doctors “could be due to an infection with the HPV virus up to 30 years ago,” which could have “activated and turned into cancer.”
Mr Courier said his cancer was “very treatable” with a “90 per cent cure rate”.
The “Fuller House” alum told viewers, “The doctors said the prognosis is good, but I’m going to start radiation treatment right away.”
So far, the treatment has been a “completely different animal” from the chemotherapy he underwent last year.
“It doesn’t feel as aggressive, but it still has side effects,” Coulier said.
He revealed on the “Today” show in November 2024 that he had been diagnosed with stage 3 lymphoma, and was declared cancer-free earlier this year.
Courier received the news of his remission on the day he became a grandfather and said, “How rude, Taneritos!” April Podcast Listener.
“It was a great day,” he exclaimed at the time.
Six months later, Coulier was diagnosed with HPV-related oropharyngeal tongue cancer after “I had a PET scan and something flared up on the scan.”
“The silver lining here is that I had cancer and that helped us find other cancers. It seems crazy to make a statement like that, but it’s true,” he said Tuesday. Still, he acknowledged the difficulty of the “emotional” struggle.
“It’s emotionally draining. It’s a huge drain on my wife, Melissa (Bring), too. That’s the biggest drain on me, considering how this is going to affect her,” Courier continued, referring to Melissa, 42, whom he married in July 2014.
The “cautiously optimistic” comedian insisted, “I’m going to be on the other side of this issue.”
The self-proclaimed “poster boy for cancer” added: “How can I not use this moment to use my voice to say to people, ‘Early detection saved my life, and now early detection saved my life again.'”
