United Kingdom, March 27 -- Dave Coulier felt like he had "punched" his wife "in the chest" when he told her he had cancer.

The 65-year-old actor revealed in November that he had been diagnosed with Stage 3 non-Hodgkin lymphoma and he's recalled how he had 15 minutes to process the news of his diagnosis following a lymph node biopsy before he broke it to spouse Melissa, and on doing so, they cried together.

Speaking to Blood Health magazine, Dave said: "My wife called me just before the doctor did and said she'd be home in 20 minutes. Then the phone rang.

"My doctor said, 'We wish we had better news.' I thought, 'Uh-oh, this isn't going to be good.' They told me I had non-Hodgkin's lymphoma - specifically, an aggressive B-cell strain -...