Dave Coulier
David Livingston/Getty ImagesFull house the star Dave Coulier shared a candid update on her ongoing cancer treatment.
“Side effects have side effects,” Coulier, 65, said in his latest episode “Full House Rewind” Podcast Published on Friday, January 10. So it's this constant cocktail where your body is in fight or flight mode and you're just trying to adjust, 'Okay, how am I adjusting to steroids? How am I adjusting to the chemo cocktail?'
Coulier went on to say that his body was in “a constant battle”.
“It's a little bit of an internal battle,” he continued.
In November 2024, the actor revealed that he had been diagnosed with stage 3 non-Hodgkin lymphoma. In an interview with Dr peopleCoulier explained that he first received his diagnosis in October of the same year after experiencing an upper respiratory infection that left his lymph nodes severely swollen.
As a result, Coulier underwent PET and CT scans as well as a biopsy.
“Three days later, my doctors called me back and they said, 'We'd like to have 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 outlet at the time. “I went from, 'I've got a bit of a cold', to 'I've got cancer' and it was pretty overwhelming. It's been a really fast roller coaster ride of a journey.”
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma is a type of cancer that attacks the body's lymphatic system and “affects white blood cells called lymphocytes (which) can form growths (tumors) throughout the body”. Mayo Clinic.
After publicly revealing his diagnosis, Coulier explained that he and his wife Bring on Melissa He relied on the advice of friends in the medical field to develop “a very specific plan for how they were going to treat” his aggressive cancer.
“It was really a conscious decision, I'm going to meet this head, and I want people to know this is my life,” Coulier explained in a November 2024 episode of his podcast after revealing his diagnosis. “I will not try to hide anything. I'd rather talk about it and open up discussions and inspire people.”
On Friday's episode of his podcast, Coulier revealed that since sharing his diagnosis he's “heard from a lot of people who have had cancer in their lives.”
“Words of encouragement, I think, really helped people,” he shared. “So, to me, it's all worth the journey. Just being able to alert people that it's OK to have a colonoscopy or an early screening or a mammogram, that's really valuable.”