Speaking to People, the actor said he was diagnosed in October after an upper respiratory infection caused major swelling in his lymph nodes. After an area of the swelling grew to the size of a golf ball, his doctor advised him to undergo PET and CT scans as well as a biopsy.
“Three days later, my doctors called me back, and they said, ‘We wish we had better news for you, but you have non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and it’s called B cell and it’s very aggressive,’” Coulier recalled.
“I went from, I got a little bit of a head cold to I have cancer, and it was pretty overwhelming,” he said. “This has been a really fast roller coaster ride of a journey.”