Dave Coulier Gives Candid Information About Cancer: ‘In Fight Or Flight Mode’

Full house a star Dave Coulier shared candid news about his cancer treatment.

“Side effects have side effects,” Coulier, 65, said in the latest episode “Full House Rewind” podcast. Posted on Friday, January 10th. “And then you take a drug to counteract this and that and that. So it’s a 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 chemotherapy cocktail?”

Coulier went on to say that his body is in a “constant struggle.”

“It’s a bit of an internal battle,” he continued.

In November 2024, the actor announced 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 suffering an upper respiratory infection that caused his lymph nodes to swell.

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 we had better news for you, but you have non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, it’s called B-cell and it’s very aggressive,'” Coulier told the publication at the time. “I went from ‘I’ve got a bit of a cold’ to ‘I have cancer’ and it was pretty overwhelming. It’s been a very fast rollercoaster ride.”

Non-Hodgkin lymphoma is a form of cancer that fights 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 publicly revealing his diagnosis, Coulier explained that he and his wife Melissa Bring relied on the advice of friends in the medical field to come up with a “very specific plan of how they were going to treat” his aggressive form of cancer.

“It was a really conscious decision: I’m going to face this big one, and I want people to know that this is my life,” Coulier explained on a November 2024 episode of his podcast after his diagnosis. “I’m not going to hide anything. I’d like to talk about it and open up a discussion and inspire people.”

On Friday’s episode of his podcast, Coulier said that after sharing his diagnosis, he’s “heard from so many people who have had cancer in their lives.”

“The words of encouragement, I think, helped people a lot,” he shared. “So for me, it’s worth it to travel all that. Just being able to let people know that they can get a colonoscopy, an early screening or a mammogram, it’s really worth it.”