Dave Coulier opens up about cancer: 'Fight or flight mode'

Full house star Dave Coulier has shared a candid update about his ongoing cancer treatment.

“Side effects have side effects,” Coulier, 65, said in his latest episode Full House Rewind Podcast. published on Friday, January 10th. “And then you take drugs 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 adapt: ​​'Okay, how do I adapt to the steroids? How do I adapt 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 PeopleCoulier explained that he was first diagnosed in October of that year after surviving an upper respiratory infection that caused severe swelling of his lymph nodes.

As a result, Coulier underwent a PET and CT scan, as well as a biopsy.

“Three days later, my doctors called me back and said, 'We wish you had better news, but you have non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and it's called B-cell, and it's very aggressive,'” Coulier said at the time. from “I have a bit of a head cold” to “I have cancer” and it was pretty overwhelming.It's been a really fast rollercoaster ride.

Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma is a type of cancer that attacks the body's lymphatic system and affects “white blood cells called lymphocytes (which) grow abnormally and can form growths (tumors) throughout the body,” according to Mayo Clinic.

After going public with 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, I'm going to date this person and I want people to know that this is my life,” Coulier explained on a November 2024 podcast episode after revealing his diagnosis. “I'm not going to 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's “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 shared. “That's why it's worth the whole trip to me. Just being able to alert people that it's okay to have colonoscopies or early screenings or mammograms, it's really worth it.