Dave Coulier
David Livingston/Getty ImagesA full house star Dave Coulier shared a candid update on his ongoing cancer treatment.
“Side effects have side effects,” Coulier, 65, said in his latest episode Full House Back Podcast. Posted on Friday, January 10th. “And then you take medicine to counteract this and this 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 do I adjust to the steroids? How am I adjusting to the chemo cocktail?’
Coulier said his body was in a “constant battle.”
“It’s a bit of an internal battle,” he continued.
In November 2024 the actor revealed that he was diagnosed with stage 3 non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. In an interview with peopleCoulier explained that he was first diagnosed in October of that year after experiencing an upper respiratory infection that caused his lymph nodes to become severely swollen.
As a result, Coulier underwent a PET and CT scan, 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 said at the outlet then. “I went from ‘I have a little cold’ to ‘I have cancer’ and it was pretty overwhelming. It was a really fast rollercoaster.”
According to 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.
“It was really a conscious decision that I’m going to meet this principal, and I want people to know that this is my life,” Coulier explained in the November 2024 episode. on his podcast after revealing his diagnosis. “I’m not going to try to hide anything. I’d rather talk about it and open up the discussion and inspire people.”
On Friday’s episode of his podcast, Coulier revealed that since sharing his diagnosis, he’s “heard from so many people who have been touched by cancer in their lives.”
“I think the words of encouragement really helped people,” he shared. “So I think it’s worth the journey of it all. Just being able to warn people that it’s okay to get colonoscopies or early screenings or mammograms is really worth it.”
