Dave Coulier
David Livingston/Getty ImagesFull House Star Dave Coulier has shared a candid update about his ongoing cancer treatment.
“Side effects have side effects,” Coulier, 65, said on the latest episode of his Full House Rewind podcast that aired Friday, Jan. 10. “And then you get a drug to fight that and that and that. So it’s this constant cocktail where your body is in fight-or-flight mode and you’re just trying to adjust to, ‘Okay, how am I adjusting to the steroids? ?How am I adjusting to the chemotherapy cocktail?’”
Coulier went on to say that his body is in “a constant battle.”
“It’s a bit of an internal battle,” he continued.
In November 2024, the actor revealed that he had been diagnosed with Stage 3 non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. In an interview with The peopleCoulier explained that he first received his diagnosis in October of that year after experiencing an upper respiratory infection that resulted in severely swollen lymph nodes.
As a result, Coulier underwent PET and CT scans, as well as a biopsy.
“Three days later, my doctors called me and 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 told the media at the time. . “I went from, ‘I’ve got a bit of a head cold’ to ‘I have cancer’ and it was very overwhelming. This has been a really fast roller coaster ride.
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma is a form of cancer that attacks the body’s lymphatic system and affects “white blood cells called lymphocytes (that) grow abnormally and can form growths (tumors) throughout the body,” according to the Mayo Clinic.
After publicly revealing his diagnosis, Coulier explained that he and his wife Melissa Bring relied on the advice of friends in the medical field to create “a very specific plan for how they were going to treat” his aggressive form of cancer.
“This was really a conscious decision, I’m going to meet this head-on and I want people to know it’s my life,” Coulier explained on a November 2024 episode of his podcast after revealing his diagnosis. his. “I will not try to hide anything. I’d rather talk about it and open the discussion and inspire people.”
On Friday’s episode of his podcast, Coulier revealed that since sharing his diagnosis he has “heard from so many people who have been touched by cancer in their lives.”
“I think the words of encouragement have really helped people,” he said. “So for me the journey of it all is worth it. Just being able to warn people that it’s OK to have a colonoscopy or early screenings or a mammogram is really worth it.”
